Press release: Uppsala, Sweden, March 8, 2023. Dicot has entered into a consultancy agreement with medical doctor Harin Padma-Nathan, a world leading medical expert in male sexual dysfunctions. Dr Padma-Nathan was involved in the development of the drugs for erectile dysfunction currently on the market, e.g., as Lead Principal Investigator during the development of Viagra and Cialis. His Viagra paper in The New England Journal of Medicine is the most cited paper in the field of urology.
Dicot is developing a novel potency drug aimed to become the first choice for treatment of erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation, and the company is now preparing for the start of clinical studies with the drug candidate LIB-01.
The company has now entered into a consultancy agreement with Dr Harin Padma-Nathan, a world leading medical doctor within erectile dysfunction drug development. Dr Padma-Nathan has been Lead Principal Investigator in over 110 clinical trials, including the Viagra and Cialis programs. He has been published extensively, e.g., three articles in the New England Journal of Medicine including the Viagra, MUSE and Caverject landmark publications. His 1998 Viagra paper is still the most widely cited paper in the field of urology.
Dr Padma-Nathan received the American Urological Association Scholarship and was Professor of Clinical Urology at Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California. He has been a frequent guest in every major American news network such as CNN, Fox and 20/20, and his research has been cited on the front pages of e.g., the New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.
"I am excited and honored to support the Dicot team. LIB-01, with its unique duration of action, promises to shift the management paradigm of erectile dysfunction. It is the first revolutionary molecule to enter the field since the advent of Viagra", comments Dr Harin Padma-Nathan.
"I am very glad and grateful that Dr Padma-Nathan will be an advisor to Dicot and I'm certain his experiences from this medical field in the international arena will add a lot of value in several strategic areas", says Elin Trampe, CEO of Dicot.
For further information, please contact:
Elin Trampe, CEO
Phone: +46 739 80 14 08
E-mail: elin.trampe@dicot.se
About Dicot AB
Dicot is developing the drug candidate LIB-01, which will be a potency agent to better treat erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation. The ambition is to create a drug with significantly longer effect and far fewer side effects, compared to current available drugs. Today, over 500 million men suffer from these sexual dysfunctions and the market is valued at USD 7 billion. Dicot's strategy is to develop LIB-01 under own auspices until phase 2a studies and thereafter in partnership with larger, established pharmaceutical companies, finance and develop LIB-01 further to a registered pharmaceutical on the world market.
Dicot is listed on Spotlight Stock Market and has approximately 3,300 shareholders. For more information, please visit www.dicot.se.
Uppsala, March 28, 2023. Dicot has now conducted the last of two planned regulatory meetings prior to an application to start clinical trials. The purpose was to anchor the scientific background documentation to be included in a clinical trial application and covered central parts of Dicot's study design to which the Swedish Medical Product Agency was positive.
Press release: Uppsala, Sweden, March 8, 2023. Dicot has entered into a consultancy agreement with medical doctor Harin Padma-Nathan, a world leading medical expert in male sexual dysfunctions. Dr Padma-Nathan was involved in the development of the drugs for erectile dysfunction currently on the market, e.g., as Lead Principal Investigator during the development of Viagra and Cialis. His Viagra paper in The New England Journal of Medicine is the most cited paper in the field of urology.
Press release: Uppsala, February 27, 2023. Dicot AB (publ) hereby publishes its year-end report for the period January - December 2022 and for the fourth quarter. The year-end report is available as an attached document and on the company's website www.dicot.se. Below is a summary of the report.
Fourth quarter 2022
- Net sales amounts to KSEK 0 (0)
- Earnings after financial items amounts to KSEK -8,604 (-8,408)
- Earnings per share amounts to SEK -0.06 (-0.10)
January - December 2022
- Net sales amounts to KSEK 0 (0)
- Earnings after financial items amounts to KSEK -31,756 (-27,175)
- Earnings per share amounts to SEK -0.26 (-0.42)
Press release: Uppsala, February 20, 2023. Dicot announces that the GMP manufacturing of the study drug for the planned phase 1 studies has begun. This is completely in line with the company's time schedule for start of clinical studies. The manufacture refers to both study drugs with active substance and placebo.
Uppsala, February 17, 2023. Today the pharmaceutical company Dicot presented the latest study of the mechanism of action of LIB-01 at the European Society for Sexual Medicine's annual congress in Rotterdam. The study shows that the mechanism of action differs from today's most common potency drugs, PDE5 inhibitors, and that LIB-01 may thus represent a completely new generation of potency drugs.
Uppsala, January 23, 2023. The pharmaceutical company Dicot AB that develops LIB-01 to become a new potency drug, today announces that it is moving forward with a new patent application. The patent application covers the new oral formulation for LIB-01 that was developed in 2022 and which will be used in the phase 1 clinical studies. This follows the IP strategy earlier communicated by the company.
Press release: Uppsala, January 19, 2023. The pharmaceutical company Dicot has contracted Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, to perform GMP manufacturing of the drug candidate LIB-01 for the upcoming clinical trials.
Uppsala, January 4, 2023. The pharmaceutical company Dicot announces the contracting of reputable Clinical Trial Consultants AB (CTC) for conducting clinical phase 1 studies intended to start in mid-2023. The studies will take place at the contracted company's research clinic in Uppsala.
Uppsala, December 8, 2022. The pharmaceutical company Dicot announces that results from the latest study of the mechanism of action of LIB-01 have been selected to be presented at the European Society for Sexual Medicine's annual congress in February 2023.
Uppsala, November 15, 2022. Dicot's latest study of the mechanism of action of LIB-01, i.e., how the drug affects the body to achieve the desired effect, shows that it differentiates from today's potency drugs. This means that LIB-01 can be assumed to represent a new generation of potency drugs.