Metris Therapeutics Ltd.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Existing drug therapies for endometriosis, including drugs that block estrogen and GnRH agonists bear troubling side effects. Metris Therapeutics hopes to avoid these by taking a different path to the disease. The company's founders were among the first to identfiy increased levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the peritoneal fluid of women with endometriosis. Metris has therfore set out to develop a product to block VEGF's action.
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