Treatment in a U.S.-based Phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluating uniQure‘s gene therapy AMT-130 in people with Huntington’s…
Inês Martins, PhD
Inês holds a PhD in biomedical sciences from the University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she specialized in blood vessel biology, blood stem cells, and cancer. Before that, she studied cell and molecular biology and worked as a research fellow at multiple institutes. In addition to several college awards, Inês won the Pfizer Basic Research Award in 2012 for a research paper. She also has a graduate degree in data science.
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Articles by Inês Martins, PhD
The accumulation of toxic protein aggregates within nerve cells are a hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, or Huntington’s…
Stopping the protein TDP-43 from accumulating in mitochondria may help prevent neurodegeneration in a variety of diseases, according to researchers at the Case…
Using roundworms to screen chemicals that increase lifespan may improve knowledge on diseases related to aging such as Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s,…
More People at Risk of Developing Huntington’s Disease Than Previously Thought, Scientists Find
According to a recent study developed by researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada, more people may have mutations…
Korean researchers have demonstrated for the first time that transplanting cells from a patient with Huntington’s disease (HD) into mice leads to…
A collaboration between researchers at the University of Leicester, U.K., and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, may…
Olesoxime, a drug shown to have neuroprotective properties, may have beneficial effects in Huntington’s patients through reduction of calpain-mediated huntingtin…