NeuroVive Pharmaceutical AB announced that a collaboration agreement has been signed with Karolinska Institutet, regarding development of the company's compound NV556 for the treatment of mitochondrial myopathy. Under the collaboration agreement, the team led by Prof. Håkan Westerblad at Karolinska Institutet will study NeuroVive's cyclophilin inhibitor compound NV556 and its effects in experimental models of mitochondrial myopathy. This collaboration expands NeuroVive's presence in the genetic mitochondrial disease field, which is a NeuroVive key focus area and where NeuroVive also develops its NVP015 compounds in mitochondrial respiratory chain diseases. The NV556 compound that is studied under this collaboration is targeting cyclophilin D, and has therefore a different and complementary mode of action than the NVP015 compounds which target the respiratory chain supporting cell energy production.