Singapore Study Discovers Novel Therapeutic Target to Advance The Treatment of Diabetic Eye Diseases (IMAGE)

Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

Singapore Study Discovers Novel Therapeutic Target to Advance The Treatment of Diabetic Eye Diseases

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The core scientific research team, (L-R) Associate Professor Wang Xiaomeng from the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders Programme and Centre for Vision Research at Duke-NUS Medical School, Research Scientist Dr Asfa Alli Shaik and Senior Principal Investigator Dr Jayantha Gunaratne from IMCB, investigated disease-modified protein profiles in the eye to discover novel therapeutic targets for Diabetic Retinopathy, a condition which leads to blindness induced by prolonged diabetes.

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Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR

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