Passion for Patients

Passion for Patients

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A Patient-Centric Approach to Advocacy

Patients are our North Star. We build our science around patients and their families through authentic and ongoing engagement and are committed to transforming patients’ lives through our activities.

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We embrace this at Cytokinetics by:

  • Understanding the burden of illness on patients and their families to inspire our discovery and development of potential medicines.
  • Recognizing that patients are essential to our everyday decisions.
  • Partnering with advocacy groups and patients to support and elevate patient communities.
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Whitepaper

Read more about how we turn our commitment to patients into tangible action in our white paper:

Patient Centricity at Cytokinetics:
It Comes From The Heart.

Partnering for Our Shared Purpose

At Cytokinetics, we are passionate about helping improve lives in the communities we serve. We are inspired by the patients, caregivers and advocates in these communities who fearlessly fight every day, and we proudly work alongside them to advance their goals. By partnering with patient advocacy groups we aim to:

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Elevate Patient and
Caregiver Voice
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Inform Public Policy
Advancements
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Champion Access
and Patient Services
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Raise Awareness and Increase
Understanding of the Burden of Disease
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Support Fundraising Efforts and
Community Education
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Wear Red Day

During American Heart Month, on the first Friday of February, we join people across the country in wearing red to raise awareness for heart disease.

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American Heart Association Philadelphia Heart Walk

We are proud to join together and walk alongside so many others to raise funds, honor survivors, promote heart health, and get active.

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Napa Valley Ride to Defeat ALS

Each year, a team of employees, family and friends cycle distances ranging from 9 miles to 100 miles to fundraise and raise awareness for ALS.

Commitment to Patients

Every day, we are committed to people living with diseases of impaired muscle function.

They are spouses, partners, sisters, brothers, children and grandchildren. They are not defined by their disease. They are fighting with spirit, determination and courage. They amaze us. They inspire us. They are our heroes.

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