DALCOR PHARMACEUTICALS

DalCor is developing precision treatments for cardiovascular disease by genetically targeting patients that will derive clinical benefits. The company’s first development program, dalcetrapib, is intended to reduce cardiovascular events in a genetically distinct subset of patients. A pharmacogenomics analysis which was performed on 5,749 of the 17,000-patient dal-Outcomes study showed that patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) having an AA polymorphism at the rs1967309 location in the ADCY9 gene had significantly fewer cardiovascular events when treated with dalcetrapib, a CETP inhibitor, than with placebo. DalCor has secured a world-wide exclusive license from Roche for dalcetrapib together with rights to the ADCY9 genetic marker.