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Cytokinetics Seeks ALS Success By Focusing On Lung Function

 
• By Joseph Haas

Despite an earlier Phase II failure on broader ALS endpoint, biotech thinks it can demonstrate efficacy in slowing lung-function decline in ALS patients.

Backed both with funding from ALS Association's Ice Bucket Challenge proceeds and from an expanding partnership with Astellas Pharma Inc., Cytokinetics Inc. thinks it may succeed where others have failed in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, with a drug that has demonstrated ability to slow the decline of lung function, the primary cause of death in most ALS patients.

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