Ana Pamplona, PhD,  —

Ana holds her PhD in Biochemistry from the Faculty of Science and Technology from Lisbon (UNL). She has worked in the T-cell differentiation and Tumor targeting Lab at Instituto de Medicina Molecular, headed by Prof. Bruno Silva-Santos, and has served as a scientific reviewer for the peer-reviewed journal Infection & Immunity.

Articles by Ana Pamplona

Cystic Fibrosis Patients May Experience Anti-Viral Drug Resistance After Lung Transplantation

Lung transplantation patients who are treated with immune-suppressing drugs after surgery to prevent rejection of the lung are susceptible to contracting life-threatening viruses such as cytomegalovirus (CMV). In order to protect against this, lung transplant patients are normally treated with an anti-viral drug called ganciclovir, which decreases mortality caused…

Can Cystic Fibrosis Treatment Improve Thanks To a Ferret?

A major breakthrough in the understanding of respiratory diseases entitled “The draft genome sequence of the ferret (Mustela putorius furo) facilitates study of human respiratory disease” was published on Nature Biotechnology by Dr. Xinxia Peng at the University of Washington in Seattle and Federica Di…

New Collaboration on Unfolded Protein Response Modulators Could Benefit Cystic Fibrosis Drug Development

Proteostasis Therapeutics, a company developing novel therapeutics for Cystic Fibrosis and other diseases to address defects in protein folding, trafficking and clearance, and Astellas Pharma Inc. (“Astellas”), a company dedicated to improving people’s health by providing innovative and reliable pharmaceuticals, announced a worldwide joint collaboration to research and…

In Vitro Fertilization Viable For Female Cystic Fibrosis Patients

A new study on the impact of Cystic Fibrosis carrier status in in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures and outcomes, entitled “Female cystic fibrosis mutation carriers and assisted reproductive technology: Does carrier status affect reproductive outcomes?“ was recently announced by Celmatix, a New York City-based company…