UCL
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Researchers led by scientists at UCL have discovered a protein that appears to set off diabetic retinopathy, a common eye disease caused by high blood sugar damaging the retina's blood vessels.
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The UCL research team has already created a drug designed to target LRG1.
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In 2019 they founded Senya Therapeutics, a UCL spinout company created with the support of UCL Business to develop drugs that target LRG1.
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The new findings build on several years of research by scientists at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology investigating how LRG1 contributes to eye disease.
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Professor David Attwell, Jodrell Professor of Physiology at UCL, and the study's co-lead, added: "With an increasing number of similar GLP-1 drugs now being used in clinical practice, for conditions ranging from type 2 diabetes and obesity to kidney disease, our findings highlight the potential for these existing drugs to be repurposed to treat the risk of 'no-reflow' in heart attack patients, offering a potentially life-saving solution."
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