Adding the experimental oral therapy voclosporin to standard-of-care treatment is safe and nearly doubles the proportion of complete kidney…
Marta Figueiredo, PhD
Marta Figueiredo holds a BSc in Biology and a MSc in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is currently finishing her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Lisbon, where she focused her research on the role of several signalling pathways in thymus and parathyroid glands embryonic development.
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Articles by Marta Figueiredo, PhD
Adding Gazyva (obinutuzumab) to standard-of-care treatment more than doubles the proportion of complete kidney responses in people with proliferative…
The European Commission has approved the use of intravenous Benlysta (belimumab) as an add-on to standard therapy for children ages…
Researchers, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), have established a new reference standard for anti-dsDNA autoantibodies —…
Abnormal blood pressure patterns during sleep and overall high blood pressure may independently predict cardiovascular disease in patients with juvenile-onset…
People with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) develop significant disease-associated damage early in life and have lower quality of life…
Women with a history of depression have more than twice the risk of developing systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), according to…
The transplantation of human placental cells was found to suppress immune and inflammatory responses in a mouse model of…
Benlysta (belimumab) reduces disease activity, relapses, and the need for corticosteroids in patients with a high degree of systemic…
Lupuzor (rigerimod, or IPP-201101) combined with standard therapy did not demonstrate a statistically significant response rate in systemic lupus…