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 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. 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 an 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, 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 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.