There’s a femtech revolution and the UK is leading it

Mace | 17th June 2022 | Uncategorised

Professor Asif Ahmed tells Mace how he's leading the charge for developing new medicines to treat pre-eclampsia

Mace sat down with Professor Asif Ahmed, Executive Chairman and Founder of MirZyme, a UK-based biopharmaceutical biotech company that focuses on the development and commercialisation of tailored therapeutics to prevent pre-eclampsia, to learn more about how he is leading the femtech revolution. Mace: What is pre-eclampsia, how does it occur and whom does it affect? AA: Let me start with a personal story. A bereaved mother and retired biochemist Dr Carolyn Fahm recalls losing her child to pre-eclampsia decades ago as if it was yesterday. She told me: “I’ve been obsessed with pre-eclampsia ever since I lost my child,” she said. “At the time, I was far too ill to leave the hospital and attend to my son's funeral arrangements. Things like that leave emotional scars. They change us physically, too: The hypertension has left visibly distended cranial blood vessels that I have seen on one of my CT scans done as part of an epilepsy neurology workup. Like Covid-19, pre-eclampsia occurs without ...

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