13
January
2020
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23:10
Asia/Singapore

Locally developed fatty liver medicines possibly launched earlier with acquisition of related intellectual property rights by German pharmaceutical companies

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A research team from Duke-NUS Medical School’s Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders Programme, SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre, National Heart Centre Singapore and the Singapore-based biotech company, Enleofen Bio had discovered the role of a specific protein – interleukin 11 (IL-11) – in fibrotic diseases of the liver, lung, kidney, eye, skin and heart.