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Press Releases Epizyme to Participate in Three Upcoming Conferences Cambridge, MA, February 10, 2011 - Epizyme, Inc., a company leading the discovery and development of personalized therapeutics for genetically-defined cancer patients based on breakthroughs in the field of epigenetics, today announced its participation in three upcoming conferences being held during February.
Epizyme’s therapeutics discovery programs are focused on histone methyltransferases (HMTs), a class of epigenetic enzymes that play an important role in regulating pathways of genes that are strongly associated with the underlying causes of many human diseases, including cancer. Epizyme announced a program-based partnership with Eisai for the epigenetic enzyme EZH2 in March 2011 and a multi-target drug discovery alliance with GlaxoSmithKline in January 2011 and also receives funding support from the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS).
About Epizyme Epizyme is leading the discovery and development of small molecule histone methyltransferase (HMT) inhibitors, a new class of personalized therapeutics for the treatment of genetically-defined cancer patients based on breakthroughs in the field of epigenetics. Genetic alterations in the HMTs are strongly associated with the underlying causes of multiple human diseases, including cancer. Epizyme’s patient-driven approach represents the future of personalized therapeutics by creating better medicines for the right patients more quickly and at lower cost than traditional approaches. www.epizyme.com
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