The first wave of COVID-19Â in Europe severely disrupted access to care and raised stress and anxiety in people with…
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
The gene therapy startup AavantiBio has launched with $107 million in funding to advance its lead clinical program…
The Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved a new, specific diagnosis code for Friedreich’s ataxia…
Simultaneous suppression of two histone methyltransferases (HMTs) significantly increased the activity of the FXN gene in cells derived…
A safety and tolerability study of Larimar Therapeutics’ investigational therapy CTI-1601 has started dosing a third and final…
Children younger than age 8 with symptoms of Friedreich’s ataxia are at a higher risk of faster disease progression and earlier…
Altered regulation of a protein called actin may contribute to neurodegeneration in Friedreich’s ataxia, according to a study…
The COVID-19 pandemic has not affected the preclinical program of XCUR-FXN, an experimental treatment for Friedreich’s ataxia…
Design Therapeutics Launches with $45M to Advance Therapy Candidates for FA and Other Disorders
Design Therapeutics has launched with $45 million in funding to advance its lead candidate for the treatment of…
Physical impairments that worsen with disease progression are the main contributors to a poor health-related quality of life among people…