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Research focuses on identifying targets for overactive bladder treatment
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"If we want to do a targeted therapy, we have to know exactly where and what we are treating," says Gamal M. Ghoniem, MD, FACS, ABU/FPMRS.
In this video, Gamal M. Ghoniem, MD, FACS, ABU/FPMRS, discusses his current research efforts. Ghoniem is Emeritus Professor of Urology at UCI School of Medicine.
Transcription:
What research projects are you currently working on?
I'm working on a very interesting project. It's an anatomy project, on female cadavers, trying to find, where are these nerves? If we want to do a targeted therapy, we have to know exactly where and what we are treating. So that's what I'm working on...I'm very excited about it because we used to study the bladder alone, and gynecologists studied the vagina going alone. But this is between the whole spectrum, between the vaginal wall and the bladder wall. So that's what I'm working on now, and defining where these targets [are] [for treating] overactive bladder.
This transcription was edited for clarity.
