Fibrosis: finding ways to fix ‘repair gone wrong’

Millions of patients around the world are suffering from the dramatic effects of fibrotic diseases.

Whether the damage occurs in the liver, as in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH); in the lung, as in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF); in the kidney, as in chronic kidney disease (CKD); in the skin, as in scleroderma; or in the gut, as in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); the consequences of fibrosis are devastating to patients’ health, and may ultimately necessitate drastic measures such as organ transplant, or tragically, cause an untimely death.

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