SpliSense has raised $28.5 million in funding to advance its antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) platform for the treatment of cystic…
Marta Figueiredo, PhD
Marta holds a biology degree, a master’s in evolutionary and developmental biology, and a PhD in biomedical sciences from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She was awarded a research scholarship and a PhD scholarship, and her research focused on the role of several signaling pathways in thymus and parathyroid glands embryonic development. She also previously worked as an assistant professor of an annual one-week embryology course at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine.
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Articles by Marta Figueiredo, PhD
Pel, a complex sugar molecule produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, contributes to the bacterium’s ability to aggregate and resist both…
The United States Adult CF Association (USACFA) is accepting applications to award a total of $15,000 in scholarships to…
Work targeting new therapies against antibiotic-resistant infections, led by West Virginia University (WVU) researchers, received a $1.4 million grant…
Researchers have developed a patient-derived model of cystic fibrosis (CF) to better understand whether these patients are more susceptible…
People with rare disorders have a worse healthcare experience than those affected by chronic diseases, according to the results of…
ELX-02 restored the levels and function of CFTR — the defective protein in CF — in “mini-organs,” or organoids,…
Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients and carriers — those with mutations in only one copy of the CFTR, the gene…
Limits placed on social interaction by the COVID‐19 pandemic appear to have led to a drop in the number of pulmonary…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the number of cystic fibrosis (CF)-related mutations considered responsive to and…