We are a dermatologist-founded, late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative therapeutics to address pervasive treatment challenges in highly prevalent aesthetic and dermatological conditions. Our initial focus is developing better treatments for pattern hair loss, or PHL, a condition affecting approximately 50 million men and 30 million women in the United States. Current PHL treatment options are limited and therefore are consistently plagued with high rates of treatment failure, patient dissatisfaction and treatment discontinuation. Patients and healthcare providers routinely identify the following shortcomings with currently available treatment options: . Slow onset of hair growth . Inconsistent results . Insufficient density of hair growth for patient satisfaction . Tolerability issues related to hormonal, mood and cardiac side effects . Inconvenient administration . Limited U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, approved treatment options, and no FDA-approved oral options for women We are developing VDPHL01 as an oral, non-hormonal treatment for men and women with PHL to reduce the barriers to wide adoption of chronic hair loss therapy and potentially transform PHL treatment. We believe that a marketing application could initially seek approval in male patients, followed by a supplemental new drug application, or sNDA, for female patients, or could alternatively pursue approval in both male and female patients simultaneously depending on the timing of the completion of our clinical trials. VDPHL01 is an oral, extended-release, or ER, formulation of minoxidil, a proven hair growth agent, designed to maximize minoxidil’s impact on hair restoration while minimizing the risk of cardiac activity. Though immediate-release, or IR, oral minoxidil was originally designed to treat resistant hypertension, it has been used off label as a treatment for PHL after hair growth was observed as a side effect. However, IR oral minoxidil’s release profile was not designed for hair growth as its short duration of circulation allows less time for follicular saturation and must be used at lower doses to reduce the likelihood of reaching off target cardiac stimulative levels. VDPHL01 builds on minoxidil’s validated hair growth biology via a novel and proprietary ER formulation designed to maximize the total plasma concentrations of minoxidil known to grow hair without inducing changes in cardiac activity. We believe that our efforts mark the first attempt to bring an ER formulation of minoxidil to patients with these optimized pharmacokinetic, or PK, and pharmacodynamic, or PD, qualities that raise the ceiling of hair growth. We are currently dosing patients with VDPHL01 in our registration-directed clinical program consisting of three pivotal, multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials: two in male patients and one in female patients with PHL. These trials are designed to support our planned submissions to the FDA for regulatory approval across both male and female patient populations through a 505(b)(2) New Drug Application, or NDA. We have fully enrolled the first of these registration-directed clinical trials, a Phase 2/3 trial evaluating VDPHL01 in 519 male patients with mild-to-moderate PHL. This first trial assesses two dose regimens of VDPHL01 over 52 weeks of treatment. The co-primary endpoints are change in non-vellus hair count per square centimeter and patient self-assessment of hair coverage benefit after 24 weeks from treatment initiation. We anticipate topline data from this clinical trial in the first half of 2026. We have also initiated our confirmatory registration-directed Phase 3 trial targeting the enrollment of 498 male patients with mild-to-moderate PHL and our registrational-directed Phase 2/3 trial targeting the enrollment of 552 female patients with mild-to-moderate PHL. We expect to report data from this male Phase 3 trial in the second half of 2026. Enrollment in the female Phase 2/3 trial is ongoing and our projected time to topline data will be determined as the trial progresses. The clinical trials designated as Phase 2/3 are designed and conducted as registration-directed Phase 3 trials to support the planned marketing application, or NDA, for VDPHL01 for the treatment of PHL. The Phase 2/3 trials include a parallel Phase 2 component intended to further assess proprietary patient-reported outcome, or PRO, measures used as endpoints in all three registration-directed trials. In a Phase 1 clinical trial, which we refer to as Study QSC300720, we studied VDPHL01 prototypes in doses up to 10 mg against a single reference dose of commercially available 2.5 mg IR oral minoxidil. When comparing the results of VDPHL01 8.5 mg with 2.5 mg IR oral minoxidil in male patients who were administered both dosage forms in this study, we found that VDPHL01 8.5 mg: . delivered nearly twice the total amount of minoxidil in plasma over 12 hours than the total amount delivered by the 2.5 mg IR oral minoxidil tablet; . sustained plasma concentrations above minoxidil's hair growth threshold two times longer than a 2.5 mg IR oral minoxidil tablet; . maintained peak concentrations below the threshold at which signs of cardiac activity are typically observed; and . was generally well tolerated with no serious adverse events, or SAEs, observed. As this study was exploratory, no formal sample size calculation was made related to statistical power. The data presented above are reflective of the study’s per-protocol primary objective, namely, to evaluate the PK profile and determine the relative bioavailability of VDPHL01 following single oral dosing of VDPHL01 versus the reference IR oral minoxidil formulation in healthy subjects. We are currently conducting a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating VDPHL01 in male patients and female patients with mild-to-moderate PHL. As this trial is exploratory, no formal sample size calculation was made related to statistical power. Therefore, all trial endpoints, including objective hair count measures and subjective patient and investigator assessments, are exploratory and are planned to be reported as descriptive statistics. In October 2025, we announced preliminary data from the male cohort for those who had completed four months of treatment in this trial (n=21; the female cohort, currently with 22 subjects dosing, initiated enrollment in this trial later than males, and similar data is not yet available). The preliminary data show that VDPHL01 drove favorable outcomes, which we believe underscores its potential to deliver a convenient, oral treatment that provides visible hair regrowth to the majority of users as early as two months, while maintaining a favorable tolerability profile. We believe that the results of this trial support the emerging product profile for VDPHL01 with the following key attributes: . Speed: Visibly noticeable hair growth as early as two months after treatment in a majority of patients based on PRO, and an Investigator Global Assessment, or an IGA. . Consistency: 90.5% treatment response at four months based on PRO of participants reporting “improved” or “much improved” hair coverage. . Intensity: Average non-vellus (greater than 30 microns) hair count change of 47.3 hairs per cm2, with double digit absolute non-vellus hair count changes in greater than 90% of patients completing four months of treatment. . Safety: Generally well tolerated, with no treatment-related SAEs, including no cardiac or hormonal-related issues to date. . Convenience: Preference for oral over topical administration supported by third-party research. . Marketability: Potential to be the first oral, non-hormonal FDA-approved therapy for PHL. --- Our Phase 2 trial evaluating VDPHL01 in male patients and female patients with PHL is ongoing, and we have initiated three registration-directed trials evaluating VDPHL01, two in male patients with PHL and one in female patients with PHL. If approved, we believe VDPHL01’s commercial potential would be substantial, as we estimate that the current U.S. commercial opportunity for PHL treatments for men and women is valued at approximately $9 billion annually, despite low patient engagement and high levels of dissatisfaction with current options reported. We believe that VDPHL01 could gain a meaningful share of this existing opportunity while also catalyzing substantial growth by offering a previously unavailable, transformative product profile to patients in an area of high unmet need. Our proprietary research indicates that 93% of patients would like to address their PHL yet only 9% are satisfied with their current treatment. Based on the initial product profile we have established for VDPHL01, we believe it could drive significant adoption in this large, motivated but underserved PHL patient population. In anticipation of a potential NDA submission for VDPHL01 leveraging data from our registration-directed Phase 3 trials, we are developing a comprehensive multi-channel commercialization plan that will integrate patient identification, physician education, direct-to-consumer, or DTC, advertising, social media and telehealth engagement and customer care. This commercialization strategy will be designed to drive patient awareness of VDPHL01’s differentiated profile and demand for hair loss treatment. We believe that the success of analog therapies highlights both the unmet need and motivation among patients and reinforces the potential for VDPHL01 to create demand in a cash-pay market, convert over-the-counter, or OTC, patients to prescribed therapies and activate a population of untreated patients. We plan to focus commercial efforts at launch on establishing a dermatology-focused field force and conducting DTC advertising. We believe these commercial pillars will drive significant VDPHL01 adoption, if approved. We maintain a broad library of patents and patent applications related to the key innovations of VDPHL01, including its method of utilizing an oral route of administration, ER formulation to stimulate hair growth as well as its optimized PK and PD qualities and profile. The earliest expiring patent term is 2043. We were originally incorporated on October 5, 2019, as VeraDermics, Incorporated, a Texas corporation. On September 15, 2021, we converted to a Delaware corporation. Our principal executive offices are located in New Haven, Connecticut.
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