Therapeutic modulation of organ fibrosis in biochip format

Fraunhofer project FibroPaths®: enabling rapid and safe development of antifibrotic drugs

Press release (No. 10) - Fraunhofer IWS Dresden /

More than 100 million individuals worldwide suffer from organ fibrosis, a pathological proliferation of connective tissue in an organ, such as the lung, heart and liver. Hardly any causal treatments are available to date. The unmet medical need is partly due to the fact that the existing disease models for fibrosis research are insufficient and little predictive. Coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine ITEM, four Fraunhofer institutes have joined forces in the FibroPaths® project aimed at enabling rapid and safe development of antifibrotic drugs.