A Sweet Therapeutic For Vascular Disease In Pregnancy
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$685,453.00
Summary
This project will advance a new drug to treat pregnant women diagnosed with the disease preeclampsia, and prevent them and their baby from becoming seriously ill. It will investigate how a novel sugar compound acts directly on the mother's blood vessels to restore normal vascular function, and provide the necessary preclinical proof-of-concept data to proceed to clinical trials.