Cytokinetics Announces Five Presentations Related to Aficamten at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2024

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cytokinetics, Incorporated (Nasdaq: CYTK) today announced five presentations related to aficamten at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2024, taking place in London, UK from August 30, 2024 – September 2, 2024.

Title: Effect of Aficamten on Structure and Function in Patients with Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: The SEQUOIA-HCM CMR Substudy
Presenter: Ahmad Masri, M.D., MS, Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at Oregon Health & Science University
Date: Augst 30, 2024
Topic: Infiltrative Myocardial Disease
Session Title: Cardiac Amyloidosis: Diagnosis and Outcomes
Session Type: Moderated ePosters
Session Time: 3:00-3:50 PM BST
Location: Station 10

Title: Clinical Application of Biomarkers in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Insights from SEQUOIA-HCM
Presenter: Caroline Coats, M.D., Ph.D., Lead Clinician, West of Scotland Inherited Cardiac Conditions Service, Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health, University of Glasgow
Date: September 1, 2024
Topic: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Session Title: Novel Therapies for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy - Recent Developments and Future Prospects
Session Type: Advances in Science
Session Time: 8:15-9:45 AM BST
Presentation Time: 8:51 AM BST
Location: Dublin

Title: Aficamten in Patients with Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: An Integrated Safety Analysis
Presenter: Ahmad Masri, M.D., MS, Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at Oregon Health & Science University
Date: September 1, 2024
Topic: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Session Title: Novel Therapies for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy - Recent Developments and Future Prospects
Session Type: Advances in Science
Session Time: 8:15-9:45 AM BST
Presentation Time: 9:09 AM BST
Location: Dublin

Title: Impact of Aficamten on Echocardiographic Cardiac Structure and Function in Adults with Symptomatic Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Presenter: Sheila Hegde, M.D., M.P.H., Cardiovascular Medicine Specialist, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Date: September 2, 2024
Topic: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Session Title: Cardiac Myosin Inhibitors for Treatment of Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy
Session Type: Abstract Sessions
Session Time: 12:00-1:00 PM BST
Presentation Time: 12:00 PM BST
Location: Science Box 3

Title: Effect of Aficamten on Patient-Reported Health Status in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Results from SEQUOIA-HCM
Presenter: John A. Spertus, M.D., M.P.H., Professor, Daniel J. Lauer Missouri Endowed Chair in Metabolic and Vascular Disease Research, Clinical Director, University of Missouri Kansas City Healthcare Institute for Innovations in Quality and Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
Date: September 2, 2024
Topic: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Session Title: Cardiac Myosin Inhibitors for Treatment of Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy
Session Type: Abstract Sessions
Session Time: 12:00-1:00 PM BST
Presentation Time: 12:10 PM BST
Location: Science Box 3

About Cytokinetics

Cytokinetics is a late-stage, specialty cardiovascular biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing first-in-class muscle activators and next-in-class muscle inhibitors as potential treatments for debilitating diseases in which cardiac muscle performance is compromised. As a leader in muscle biology and the mechanics of muscle performance, the company is developing small molecule drug candidates specifically engineered to impact myocardial muscle function and contractility. Cytokinetics is preparing for regulatory submissions for aficamten, its next-in-class cardiac myosin inhibitor, following positive results from SEQUOIA-HCM, the pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial in obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Aficamten is also currently being evaluated in MAPLE-HCM, a Phase 3 clinical trial of aficamten as monotherapy compared to metoprolol as monotherapy in patients with obstructive HCM, ACACIA-HCM, a Phase 3 clinical trial of aficamten in patients with non-obstructive HCM, CEDAR-HCM, a clinical trial of aficamten in a pediatric population with obstructive HCM, and FOREST-HCM, an open-label extension clinical study of aficamten in patients with HCM. Cytokinetics is also developing omecamtiv mecarbil, a cardiac muscle activator, in patients with heart failure. Additionally, Cytokinetics is developing CK-586, a cardiac myosin inhibitor with a mechanism of action distinct from aficamten for the potential treatment of HFpEF, and CK-136, a cardiac troponin activator for the potential treatment HFrEF and other types of heart failure, such as right ventricular failure resulting from impaired cardiac contractility.

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