NRG Awarded $500K by MJFF to Develop Disease-modifying Therapy
NRG Therapeutics has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF)…
​​Vanda is a biochemist with a PhD in biomedicine from the University of Porto, Portugal. She conducted her postdoctoral research first at the Bristol Medical School, U.K., studying the insulin-PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in diabetic nephropathy, then at the Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, where her focus was on glycosylation in lupus nephritis and inflammatory bowel disease. She next made the switch to science publishing, handling papers in biochemistry, molecular biology, and immunology.
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NRG Therapeutics has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF)…
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