Cytokinetics Announces Five Presentations Related to Aficamten at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2025
Positive Results from MAPLE-HCM to be Shared in Hot Line Presentation
Late Breaking Clinical Science Session to Present Incidence and Impact of Atrial Fibrillation Across Three Clinical Trials of Aficamten in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Company to Host Investor Event and Webcast Tuesday September 2, 2025, at 8:00 AM Eastern Time
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cytokinetics, Incorporated (Nasdaq: CYTK) today announced five presentations related to aficamten at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2025 taking place in Madrid, Spain from August 29, 2025 – September 1, 2025 including a Hot Line presentation of the primary results from MAPLE-HCM (Metoprolol vs Aficamten in Patients with LVOT Obstruction on Exercise Capacity in HCM) and a Late Breaking Clinical Science presentation relating to the incidence and impact of atrial fibrillation across three clinical trials of aficamten in obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
Oral Presentations
Title: MAPLE-HCM: Aficamten vs Metoprolol in Obstructive HCM
Presenter: Pablo Garcia-Pavia, M.D., Ph.D., Head of the Inherited Cardiac Diseases and Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro and Full Professor, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares both in Madrid, Spain
Date: August 30, 2025
Session Title: Hot Line 2
Session Time: 8:15 - 9:45 AM CEST
Presentation Time: 9:18 AM CEST
Location: Madrid (Main Auditorium)
Title: REDWOOD-HCM, SEQUOIA-HCM and FOREST-HCM Trials: Incidence and Impact of Atrial Fibrillation in Obstructive HCM with Aficamten
Presenter: Ahmad Masri, M.D., MS, Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at Oregon Health & Science University
Date: August 31, 2025
Session Title: Late-Breaking Clinical Science: Cardiomyopathies
Session Time: 4:15-5:15 PM CEST
Presentation Time: 4:45 PM CEST
Location: Budapest (Hall 10)
Title: Efficacy and Safety of Long-Term Treatment with Aficamten in Patients with Symptomatic Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Results from FOREST-HCM
Presenter: Sara Saberi, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Health Frankel Cardiovascular Center
Date: August 31, 2025
Session Title: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: From Gene to Treatment
Session Time: 5:00 - 6:20 PM CEST
Presentation Time: 5:40 PM CEST
Location: Science Box 4 (Research Gateway)
Title: Effect of Aficamten Compared with Metoprolol on Cardiac Structure and Function in Symptomatic Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Pre-Specified Analysis of MAPLE-HCM
Presenter: Sheila Hegde, M.D., M.P.H, Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, Affiliate Faculty, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Date: August 31, 2025
Session Title: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: From Gene to Treatment
Session Time: 5:00 - 6:20 PM CEST
Presentation Time: 6:10 PM CEST
Location: Science Box 4 (Research Gateway)
Moderated Poster Presentation
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: August 30, 2025
Session Title: Translating Improved Disease Understanding to Novel Therapies in Myocardial Disease
Session Time: 4:15 – 5:00 PM CEST
Location: Station 8 (Research Gateway)
Investor Webcast Information
Cytokinetics will host an investor webcast on September 2, 2025, at 8:30 AM Eastern Time to discuss the primary results from MAPLE-HCM and other data presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2025. Interested parties can register online at . The live webcast will be available on the Investors & Media section of the Cytokinetics website at . A replay of the webcast will be archived on the Cytokinetics website for six months.
About Cytokinetics
Cytokinetics is a specialty cardiovascular biopharmaceutical company, building on its over 25 years of pioneering scientific innovations in muscle biology, and advancing a pipeline of potential new medicines for patients suffering from diseases of cardiac muscle dysfunction. Cytokinetics is readying for potential regulatory approvals and commercialization of aficamten, a cardiac myosin inhibitor, following positive results from SEQUOIA-HCM, the pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Aficamten is also being evaluated in additional clinical trials enrolling patients with obstructive and non-obstructive HCM. In addition, Cytokinetics is developing omecamtiv mecarbil, a cardiac myosin activator, in patients with heart failure with severely reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), ulacamten, a cardiac myosin inhibitor with a mechanism of action distinct from aficamten, for the potential treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and CK-089, a fast skeletal muscle troponin activator with potential therapeutic application to a specific type of muscular dystrophy and other conditions of impaired skeletal muscle function.
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