Marie Boi Jacobsen
New medicine for women in menopause
She aims to prevent both symptoms and diseases by developing a safe alternative to oestrogen treatment.
LH levels in women are normally low. They only increase around ovulation, but during menopause, the production of this hormone skyrockets. And there are indications that this might have serious consequences.
This was discovered by chance in connection with studies of another hormone with the same mechanism of action, explains Ida Marie Boi Jacobsen, who researched male fertility during her PhD.
鈥淲hen healthy, normal men received this hormone, they excreted more calcium in their urine, and they produced more of a hormone that promotes the erosion of bones.鈥
The discovery sparked interest in investigating LH more closely. And that is exactly what Ida Marie Boi Jacobsen and her team have done in mouse experiments.
Read more about Ida Marie Boi Jacobsen's Frontier Grant:
With a Frontier Grant backing her, molecular medicine researcher Ida Marie Boi Jacobsen aims to develop a new oestrogen-free treatment...
