New inflammation inhibitor discovered

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed an anti-inflammatory drug molecule with a new mechanism of action. By inhibiting a certain protein, the researchers were able to reduce the signals that trigger an inflammation. The study is published in Science and was done in collaboration with the University of Texas Medical Branch, Uppsala University and Stockholm University.
"We've developed a new drug molecule that inhibits inflammation," says Professor Thomas Helleday at the Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, who co-led the study with Dr. Torkild Visnes and Dr. Armando Cázares-Körner. "It acts on a protein that we believe is a general mechanism for how inflammation arises in cells."