(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cytokinetics, Incorporated (Nasdaq: CYTK) today announced one Late Breaking Clinical Trial presentation and two moderated ePoster presentations at Heart Failure 2023 an International Congress of the European Society of Cardiology taking place online and in Prague, Czech Republic from May 20, 2023 – May 23, 2023.
Late Breaking Clinical Trial
Title: REDWOOD-HCM-Cohort 4: Aficamten in Non-Obstructive HCM
Presenter: Ahmad Masri, M.D. M.S., Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at Oregon Health & Science University
Date: May 20, 2023
Topic: Treatment
Session Title: Late-Breaking Clinical Trials: Chronic HF and Cardiomyopathies
Session Type: Late Breaking Science
Session Time: 4:00-5:00 PM CEST
Presentation Time: 4:30 PM CEST
Location: Room 1
Moderated Poster Presentations
Title: Risk of Safety Events Considered Potential Barriers to Utilization of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy Among Patients with Worsening Heart failure and Ejection Fraction 30% or Lower
Presenter: Stephen Greene, M.D., Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center & Duke Clinical Research Institute
Date: May 20, 2023
Topic: Pharmacotherapy
Session Title: Chronic Heart Failure - Pharmacotherapy 1
Session Type: Moderated ePosters
Session Time: 9:00-9:45 AM CEST
Location: Moderated ePosters 3
Title: Risk of Acute Heart Failure Events in Patients with Recent Worsening Heart Failure and Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction of 30% or Lower
Presenter: Nihar R. Desai, M.D., MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Vice Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
Date: May 21, 2023
Topic: Epidemiology, Prognosis, Outcome
Session Title: Chronic Heart Failure - Epidemiology, Prognosis, Outcome 5
Session Type: Moderated ePosters
Session Time: 12:00-12:45 PM CEST
Location: Moderated ePosters 2
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. Aficamten is a next-in-class cardiac myosin inhibitor, currently the subject of SEQUOIA-HCM, the Phase 3 clinical trial of aficamten in patients with symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Aficamten is also being evaluated in non-obstructive HCM and the company plans to begin a Phase 3 trial later this year. Cytokinetics is also developing omecamtiv mecarbil, a cardiac muscle activator in patients with heart failure. Additionally, Cytokinetics is developing CK-3828136 (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, as well as CK-4021586 (CK-586), a cardiac myosin inhibitor with a mechanism of action distinct from aficamten. In 2023, Cytokinetics is celebrating its 25-year history of pioneering innovation in muscle biology and related pharmacology focused to diseases of muscle dysfunction and conditions of muscle weakness.
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Forward-Looking Statements
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