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Team PL Signals wins the 2023 À¦°óSMÉçÇø Clinical Innovation Competition Hakim Family Innovation Prize

The Sixth Annual À¦°óSMÉçÇø Clinical Innovation Competition and Awards Ceremony took place on May 11, 2023.

Winner of the Hakim Family Innovation Prize: PL Signals

Lung fibrosis is a serious chronic and progressive disease with limited treatment options. TGF-beta is a potent pro-fibrotic factor, and its excessive action plays a central role in lung fibrosis. The PL Signals team developed a novel anti-fibrotic biologic that traps TGF-beta with high specificity and efficiently reduces lung fibrosis in preclinical models and in vitro in patients’ fibrotic cells. , of the at the RI-MUHC, led this innovative team.

Anie Philip, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, À¦°óSMÉçÇø
Shikha Chawla, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, À¦°óSMÉçÇø
Kenneth Finnson, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, À¦°óSMÉçÇø
Jini John, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, À¦°óSMÉçÇø
Tenzin Kungyal, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, À¦°óSMÉçÇø

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