Sofia Silva holds a B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the School of Sciences, University of Minho (2025), and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Biomedicine at the University of Minho’s School of Medicine. She is carrying out her dissertation project at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), under the supervision of Andreia Teixeira-Castro and Marta D. Costa.
Sofia Silva holds a B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the School of Sciences, University of Minho (2025), and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Biomedicine at the University of Minho’s School of Medicine. She is carrying out her dissertation project at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), under the supervision of Andreia Teixeira-Castro and Marta D. Costa.
Departing from previous work in which we developped cellular and animal models of Machado-Joseph disease, a neurodegenerative disorder caused by expansion of a polyglutamine tract in the protein ataxin-3 (ATXN3)…
This project addresses an unmet medical need- the lack of effective treatment for any of the aging-associated neurodegenerative diseases. Due to the worldwide aging of the population, by 2050 it is expected that over 135 million people…
