UW-Madison study in monkeys brings placenta treatment one step closer to humans

In this WPR “Wisconsin Today” conversation, WNPRC scientist Jenna Schmidt and University of Florida collaborator Helen Jones explain how a gene therapy that restores the placental protein IGF-1 — shown safe in rhesus macaques at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center — could one day treat complicated human pregnancies.

Placenta-fortifying treatments could be used to bring complicated pregnancies back to a healthy state.