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| We believe that the positive readout for SEQUOIA-HCM, along with the favorable pharmacologic and DDI profile of aficamten continue to support the opportunity to achieve differentiated labeling and risk mitigation |
| It was a truly extraordinary milestone reflective of an incredible commitment from so many, including our investigators, study staff, patients and of course, our teams at Cytokinetics |
| It is encouraging to see favorable benefit assessment from HTAs in both Germany and France related to cardiac myosin inhibitors as a new treatment option for patients with obstructive HCM and we believe this bodes will the future reimbursement of aficamten if approved across major European markets |
| These positive results reflect rapid and sustained improvements of symptoms, functional capacity and heart failure status |
| We believe that can be best achieved by advancing our innovative science, ensuring operational efficiencies and thoughtfully and prudently managing and deploying capital to maximize shareholder value |
| We believe we proved to be good stewards of shareholder capital by reducing spending ahead of the results of SEQUOIA-HCM at the end of the year, which puts us in a stronger financial position to begin 2024 |
| Overall, I'm very pleased with the foundational commercial readiness work that we've completed ahead of sharing our results of SEQUOIA-HCM last year, which sets us up to nimbly advanced into the next phase of our planning in 2024 and can enable us to capitalize on what we believe will be differentiated positioning for aficamten in the treatment of patients with obstructive HCM |
| At the same time, we're pleased with the progress of our clinical trials of aficamten |
| We believe that our longstanding leadership in the area of cardiac myosin modulation for the treatment of severe cardiovascular diseases has enabled us to look at partnering in an advantaged way as would benefit shareholders while also preserving important shareholder value in major markets of value for aficamten |
| As you'll hear in more detail, we ended 2023 with a strong balance sheet thanks to reduced spending during the year |
| We're optimistic about how those discussions are proceeding and we're committed to building a sustainable specialty cardiology company as starts with executing against our goal of bringing new medicines to patients |
| In addition to sharing positive results from SEQUOIA-HCM, during the fourth quarter, we continued enrollment and are building momentum with our two ongoing Phase 3 clinical trials of aficamten, MAPLE- HCM and ACACIA-HCM |
| Overall, our proactive planning in 2023 has enabled us to capitalize on the positive results from SEQUOIA-HCM and to proceed with urgency towards global regulatory submissions, as well as to consider expedited pathways consistent with our aggressive planning scenarios |
| And our vision of building a specialty cardiology company is now being realized and we're well positioned for success |
| We're pleased with the FDA's feedback, supporting the sufficiency of our proposed NDA submission package and the receptivity to a rolling submission plan |
| As important as SEQUOIA-HCM is to our path to commercialization, there's much more in our pipeline that we believe will meaningfully unlock shareholder value as the company continues to mature |
| We're pleased to see that screening and enrollment is accelerating and have been catalyzed by the announcement of results from SEQUOIA-HCM |
| From there, we hope to increase value as MAPLE-HCM and ACACIA-HCM readout results that now have higher probability of technical success |
| As Robert said, the strength of the specialty cardiology company we are building is anchored in the power of our research engine and development pipeline with aficamten if approved, leading the way |
| During the quarter, we shared top line results from SEQUOIA-HCM, which as Robert said, exceeded our expectations |
| The top line results from SEQUOIA-HCM have been well received by the HCM community of physicians and patient advocates who foresee that they represent what can be a meaningful advance in care |
| We take great care in fulfilling our duty to shareholders by ensuring that we're doing the right thing to deliver maximum value and controlling that which we can control |
| We're building a specialty cardiology company, leading with aficamten as the foundation and we have the pipeline, the passion and the people to make happen that vision as we believe we’ll further reward shareholders |
| The results exceeded our already high expectations and we began 2024 firing on all cylinders with renewed commitments to preparing for regulatory interactions and submissions with urgency, executing on the broad clinical development program following behind SEQUOIA-HCM, as well as activating the next phase of commercial readiness activities |
| We're very encouraged by what appears to be a leaning forward and willingness to consider these data sooner |
| As we are now a company valued between $8 billion and $10 billion, we have an ambitious yet practical and realistic plan to increase shareholder value over the next three to five years, to that which would be upwards of $15 billion to $20 billion |
| We're beginning 2024 in an advantaged position |
| However, much still remains ahead of us to bring aficamten to patients, but I'm confident in our ability to execute on our ambitious strategies |
| While aficamten represents the most important near term value driver for our company, our early stage pipeline and emerging programs from ongoing research demonstrate productivity against our vision 2025 |
| The tested attributes most closely resembling the actual SEQUOIA-HCM results revealed that healthcare professionals would perceive the results from SEQUOIA-HCM favorably and would drive use of aficamten if approved across a broad range of obstructive HCM patients |
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| Furthermore, HCM can also negatively impact patient's overall mental health, social engagement, and other aspects of everyday life |
| So we knew there was a risk when we top lined the results of SEQUOIA-HCM, that we may run a foul of a policy that ACC has regarding acceptance of abstracts and what would be otherwise contained in the public domain when they have that abstract to review |
| Our fourth quarter 2023 G&A expenses were $44.1 million, down from $54 million in Q4 2022 due primarily to lower outside spending on commercial activities, offset by higher personnel related costs including stock-based compensation |
| Robert Blum From a payor point of view, no, I don't believe we're at a disadvantage |
| Even with SGLT-2 inhibitors, the first evidence based therapies demonstrating some benefit in those of HEpEF, there is still a high residual risk of cardiovascular events and a clear need for additional effective therapies |
| Wanted to ask you a couple of quick questions that you may not be able to answer |
| They're maybe at more risk because they're closer to the cut off, it's kind of obvious |
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