Headquartered in South San Francisco, CA·Fiscal year ends December·NASDAQ: CYTK·cytokinetics.com
About Cytokinetics
Cytokinetics is a specialty cardiovascular biopharmaceutical company with over 25 years of expertise in muscle biology. Its commercial product, MYQORZO (aficamten), is a cardiac myosin inhibitor approved in the U.S., China, Europe, and the UK for the treatment of symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (oHCM) in adults. Following positive Phase 3 results from ACACIA-HCM, the company is pursuing a label expansion into non-obstructive HCM with a supplemental NDA planned for Q4 2026. Cytokinetics' pipeline includes omecamtiv mecarbil, an investigational cardiac myosin activator in Phase 3 for heart failure with severely reduced ejection fraction (COMET-HF trial); ulacamten, an investigational cardiac myosin inhibitor in Phase 2 for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (AMBER-HFpEF trial); and CK-4015089 (CK-089), a fast skeletal muscle troponin activator in Phase 1. The company has collaboration agreements with Sanofi (aficamten in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan) and Bayer (aficamten in Japan), and has financing arrangements with entities affiliated with Royalty Pharma. Cytokinetics trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker CYTK. Updated
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