The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7384 p66
21 January 2006

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Scots awarded grant to investigate stent

Researchers in Scotland have been awarded a grant of £90,000 from the British Heart Foundation to investigate a novel drug-eluting stent to combat in-stent restenosis.

Simon Kennedy, a lecturer at the department of physiology and pharmacology at the University of Strathclyde, explained: “We will investigate the problem of why these stents sometimes cause late thrombosis in the coronary artery and whether a novel antioxidant compound coated onto the stent could prevent this complication.”