The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to Nammi Therapeutics’ lead immunotherapy candidate QXL138AM…
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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