Biotherapeutics company aTyr Pharma, Inc. was recently awarded orphan drug designation from the European Commission (EC) for its…
Margarida Azevedo, MSc
Margarida graduated with a BS in Health Sciences from the University of Lisbon and a MSc in Biotechnology from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST-UL). She worked as a molecular biologist research associate at a Cambridge UK-based biotech company that discovers and develops therapeutic, fully human monoclonal antibodies.
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Articles by Margarida Azevedo, MSc
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The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) has released a report on the latest…
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The nonprofit organization, Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), has announced it will award a $50,000 exploratory grant to a research team from …
aTyr Pharma, a biotherapeutics company committed to discovering and developing therapeutics for patients with severe rare diseases based on Physioncrine…
MRIGlobal, an independent, not-for-profit, contract research organization based in Kansas City, Missouri, announced earlier in January that it has received a…
Researchers Discover a New Phenomena in which Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Cells “Eat” Themselves
A team of researchers from the University of Portsmouth recently found that in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a phenomena called autophagy…