Ana de Barros, PhD, managing science editor —

Ana holds a PhD in immunology from the University of Lisbon and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) in Lisbon, Portugal. Ana was awarded two FCT fellowships and has won the Portuguese Immunology Society Best Paper and Best Poster award in 2009 and 2010, as well as the CESPU International Research Award in 2010. After leaving the lab to pursue a career in science communication, she served as the director of science communication at iMM Lisbon.

Articles by Ana de Barros

Axovant Screens First Patients in Phase 3 MINDSET Study on RVT-101 for Alzheimer’s Disease

Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, Axovant Sciences Ltd., recently announced it has screened the first batch of patients for MINDSET, an international Phase III clinical trial exploring RVT-101 as a candidate treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. The company also reported the US Food and Drug Administration’s decision to grant MINDSET a Special Protocol Assessment…

Alzheimer’s Research UK Reveals Statistics on Disease Incidence

According to a new analysis conducted by Alzheimer’s Research UK one in three people born in 2015 will develop Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) during their lifetime. The results suggest an alarming crisis in national health as the population in the United Kingdom ages, and highlights the demand for global efforts to develop new successful…

Nationwide Study Shows Resveratrol Impacts Alzheimer’s Biomarker

Results from the largest nationwide study investigating long-term high-dose resveratrol in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD) showed that a specific a biomarker that declines with disease progression was stabilized in patients who received resveratrol in its purified form. The results, published online in Neurology,…

Study Sheds Light Into Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) has been a topic of extensive research over the past three decades. The main focus of many studies has been the neurotoxicity associated with the accumulation of insoluble proteinaceous complexes in the brain. Closer examination has revealed these complexes to be plaques formed due to aggregation of…