We tested the MCL-1 inhibitor S63845 in breast cancer cell lines and patient-derived xenografts with high expression of MCL-1. S63845 displayed synergistic activity with docetaxel in triple-negative breast cancer and with trastuzumab or lapatinib in HER2-amplified breast cancer....Here, we identify MCL-1 as an important target in TNBC and HER2-amplified breast cancer and further demonstrate that S63845 is an on-target MCL-1 inhibitor with promising activity using PDX models.