 NeuroBo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Nasdaq: NRBO, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing multimodal, disease-modifying therapies for neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic diseases, today announced that it received written communication from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA that the clinical development program for Gemcabene, a peroxisome proliferation-activated receptor PPARα agonist, under development as a once-daily, oral therapy for the treatment of dyslipidemia, remains on partial clinical hold. In January 2016, the Gemcabene Phase 2 clinical study was placed on partial clinical hold as the FDA requested 2-year rat and mouse carcinogenicity studies to be completed and submitted. 