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Elizabeth Schneider: Revolutionary Drug Shows Promise for Primary Ovarian Insufficiency
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Feb 8, 2026, 11:10

Elizabeth Schneider: Revolutionary Drug Shows Promise for Primary Ovarian Insufficiency

Elizabeth Schneider, Staff Product Marketing Manager at Illumina, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“Primary ovarian insufficiency (POI), in which the ovaries don’t mature and release eggs properly, affects about 3% of women under age 40 and typically causes infertility. But a drug already approved to treat kidney disease may one day help some of these people get pregnant, a research team reports today in Science.

In studies of mouse ovarian tissue and live mice, the drug, called finerenone, kick-started the growth of tiny egg-containing sacs, or follicles—a process that’s often defunct in people with POI. In a small clinical trial, people with POI who were given the drug went on to produce mature eggs that could be harvested, and some of the eggs were then successfully fertilized in the lab.”

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