Sarcopenia, or a loss of muscle mass and strength, occurs in nearly one-quarter of systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients…
Vanda Pinto, PhD
​​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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Articles by Vanda Pinto, PhD
In patients with systemic sclerosis, low levels in the blood of two proteins, SIRT1 and SIRT3, are associated with…
Eight weeks of treatment with a small molecule called paquinimod significantly reduced the number of myofibroblasts — cells that drive…