Cytokinetics Announces Vision 2025 and Outlines 2020 Corporate Milestones

Cytokinetics, Inc. . (Nasdaq: CYTK) today announced its Vision 2025 and provided guidance for corporate milestones expected to occur in 2020. The company’s Vision 2025: “Leading with Science, Delivering for Patients,” articulates its five-year key imperatives enabling Cytokinetics to be the leading muscle biology biopharmaceutical company that meaningfully improve the lives of patients with diseases of impaired muscle function through access to novel medicines arising from its research.

Key imperatives for Vision 2025 include:

• Achieve regulatory approvals for at least two drugs arising from our pipeline
• Build commercial capabilities to market and sell our medicines reflective of their innovation and value
• Generate sustainable and growing revenues from product sales
• Double our development pipeline to include ten therapeutic programs
• Expand our discovery platform to muscle energetics, growth and metabolism
• Be the science-driven company people want to join and partner with

“Our company transformation began five years ago when we outlined our Vision 2020,” said Robert I. Blum, Cytokinetics’ President and Chief Executive Officer. “We effectively executed on those initiatives so that we are now well positioned to look forward to the next five-year horizon and the profound privilege to potentially bring forward to patients at least two new medicines from our pioneering muscle biology focused research. We expect to deliver on the promise of our science and to double our pipeline of novel mechanism drug candidates and expand the breadth of our discovery platform. As we execute against our vision, we will support disease advocacy groups elevating the patient voice and live by our values of integrity, fairness and compassion in all that we do.”

In addition, the company announced its expected 2020 milestones.

“To ensure that we deliver on the promise of our science for patients, we recognize that we must continue to plan and execute well in connection with expected milestones in 2020,” continued Mr. Blum. “This will be a pivotal year for Cytokinetics as we now expect trial results from GALACTIC-HF by the end of the year and we need to prepare commercial readiness and co-promotion plans accordingly. In addition, we expect to both advance and expand our pipeline to enable two other programs to potentially advance to late-stage trials while another two programs may advance in earlier-stage trials. We look forward to another highly productive year aligned with our vision.”

Expected 2020 Milestones

Cardiac Muscle Programs

Omecamtiv mecarbil (cardiac myosin activator)

• Second interim analysis of GALACTIC-HF (Global Approach to Lowering Adverse Cardiac Outcomes Through Improving Contractility in Heart Failure), the Phase 3 cardiovascular outcomes clinical trial of omecamtiv mecarbil, in Q1 2020.
• Topline results from GALACTIC-HF in Q4 2020.
• Complete enrollment in METEORIC-HF (Multicenter Exercise Tolerance Evaluation of Omecamtiv MecarbilRelated to Increased Contractility in Heart Failure), the second Phase 3 trial of omecamtiv mecarbil, in 2020.
• Conduct commercial readiness and develop co-promotion plan in collaboration with Amgen in 2020.

AMG 594 (cardiac troponin activator)

• Complete Phase 1 SAD/MAD study of AMG 594 in 2H 2020.

CK-3773274 (CK-274, cardiac myosin inhibitor)

• Conduct REDWOOD-HCM, the Phase 2 clinical trial of CK-274 designed to determine the safety and tolerability of CK-274 in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (oHCM), in 2020.

CK-3772271 (CK-271, cardiac myosin inhibitor)

• File IND and initiate Phase 1 study in 1H 2020.

Skeletal Muscle Programs

Reldesemtiv (fast skeletal muscle troponin activator, FSTA)

• Engage with regulatory and reimbursement authorities in 2020 to prepare for a potential Phase 3 clinical trial and registration program for reldesemtiv in patients with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).

CK-3762601 (CK-601, next-generation FSTA)

• Advance CK-601 in IND-enabling studies in 2020.

Ongoing Research

• Continue research activities directed to the cardiac and skeletal sarcomere and our other muscle biology research programs.
• Expect to continue research in collaboration with Astellas directed to the discovery of next-generation skeletal muscle activators through 2020, subject to current negotiations.
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