Amicus Therapeutics anticipates completing a rolling application by mid-year to seek approval of its investigational therapy AT-GAA for…
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
People with rare disorders have a worse healthcare experience than those affected by chronic diseases, according to the results of…
Newly developed nerve cells derived from patients could be used as a model to study neurological involvement in Pompe disease…
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Bayer reached an agreement to acquire Asklepios BioPharmaceutical (AskBio), including its clinical program of ACT-101, an experimental…
The European Medicines Agency agreed to begin reviewing Sanofi Genzyme’s application requesting the approval of avalglucosidase alfa, its investigational…
Immunomodulatory Regimen Provides Long-term Tolerance to ERT in Children With Pompe, Study Shows
Adding a preventive short-course immunomodulatory regimen — rituximab, methotrexate, and intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) — to enzyme replacement…
A moss-derived type of enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) for Pompe disease may be more effective than the currently approved…
Sanofi Genzyme’s next-generation enzyme replacement therapy (ERT), avalglucosidase alfa, safely halts disease progression in people with…