NEW HOPE

Researchers from

Monash

University’s Central

Clinical School have announced

a discovery with to slow kidney potential

disease in people

The five-year study with diabetes.

found a key immune pathway, the

complement system the body from pathway (which

infection), was protects caused inflammation hyperactivated

and disease. in people with

Through tests, diabetic kidney Associate they found a

Professor drug developed

by Queensland Trent Woodruff helped at University of

support normal mitochondria – function of the which doesn’t

work properly in those with diabetes

– in the kidney. work, published Their

in US journal

Diabetes, could help people

with diabetes manage complications better.