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Palvella Therapeutics Announces New QTORIN™ Product Candidate, QTORIN™ Pitavastatin, for the Treatment of Disseminated Superficial Actinic Porokeratosis (DSAP), a Rare, Chronic, and Pre-Cancerous Genetic Skin Disease with No FDA-Approved Therapies

DSAP is a premalignant, progressive disease characterized by numerous expanding lesions which significantly impact quality-of-life; no FDA-approved therapies exist for the estimated more than 50,000 diagnosed U.S. patients QTORIN™ pitavastatin has the potential to be the first pathogenesis-directed therapy designed to directly inhibit the mevalonate pathway, the causal driver of DSAP, in the pathogenic skin tissue Company plans to initiate a Phase 2 trial evaluating QTORIN™ pitavastatin for DSAP in the seco ...