Credit: Cedars-Sinai
Cedars-Sinai stroke intervention researchers have been informed that the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health, will award an $8 million grant to fund a multicenter Phase II clinical trial of an experimental drug for stroke. The drug, 3K3A-APC, will be used in combination with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator, or rtPA – the “clot-busting” drug currently approved to treat ischemic strokes shortly after onset.