Cytokinetics, Incorporated rose 1.19% in premarket trading, with the company participating in the Cantor Global Healthcare Conference. The company is a late-stage, specialty cardiovascular biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing muscle biology-directed drug candidates as potential treatments for debilitating diseases in which cardiac muscle performance is compromised. The company is engaged in the commercialization of aficamten, a cardiac myosin inhibitor, and is being evaluated in additional clinical trials enrolling patients with obstructive and non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The company is also developing omecamtiv mecarbil, a cardiac myosin activator, in patients with heart failure with severely reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF); CK-586, a cardiac myosin inhibitor for the potential treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
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