Vicore Pharma's drug candidate VP01 demonstrates potential for significant benefit in severe pulmonary hypertension
Gothenburg, June 22, 2020 – Vicore Pharma Holding AB (publ), a pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative medicines for rare lung disorders, announces positive results with VP01 in a gold-standard preclinical model considered predictive of human pulmonary hypertension.Administration of clinically relevant oral doses of VP01 in the so called Sugen-Hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension (PH) model in rats caused a significant and therapeutically meaningful reduction in pulmonary arterial pressure without affecting the systemic blood pressure. In addition, VP01 significantly