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Last weekend, from August 28 to 31, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) held its annual congress in Munich. For the biotech industry, ESC 2026 delivered a mixed bag: a cardiac myosin inhibitor opening a patient population with no approved therapies, long-term validation for its main competitor, a gene silencer stumbling in ATTR-CM countered by an siRNA triumph in severe hypertriglyceridemia, and GLP-1 drugs quietly earning a place in the new heart failure guidelines. Here are the five stories that mattered most.

California-based Cytokinetics Inc (CYTK) recorded a big jump in Nasdaq prices, at 40.45%, after presenting the results of its Phase III MAPLE-HCM study at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2025.

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides, archive photo. © European Parliament

The European Council has adopted three regulations aimed at improving pandemic preparedness, which together with two other pillars complete the EU Health Union.