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Luisa Lemos

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Joined August 2011
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@curechm6 Jun 2025
Choroideremia Research Foundation Announces Six New Global Grants to Accelerate Vision Science #CureCHM #VisionResearch #CRF einpresswire.com/article/819…
Choroideremia Research Foundation Announces Six New Global Grants to Accelerate Vision Science

Choroideremia Research Foundation Announces Six New Global Grants to Accelerate Vision Science

CRF awards six global grants to advance CHM research, spanning AI, gene editing, and more—driving progress toward treatments for this rare retinal disease.

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Assinalar este dia é zelar pela equidade nas oportunidades, nos cuidados de saúde e no acesso a diagnóstico e terapia para as pessoas que vivem com doença rara. “Muito mais do que pode imaginar” é o tema de 2025. #Saúde #SNS #DoençasRaras
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Seabra Lab@MSeabraLab29 Oct 2024
Excited to share our latest research on isogenic stem cell models for Choroideremia, featured on the cover of Stem Cells and Development! 🌱🧬 Discover their potential for studying RPE degeneration mechanisms. Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1089/scd.2024.010… #ChoroideremiaResearch
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BenBedPhar@benbedphar10 Oct 2024
Today we started with Scientific Session I: New therapeutic approaches involving #NRF2 with A.T. Dinkova-Kostova, A. Grochot-Przeczek, M. Seabra, I. Varela @IIBmCSICUAM D. Miljkovic, A. Čipak Gašparović and V. Marisa Costa
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BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
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@curechm18 May 2024
France #Choroideremia symposium. Thank you to all the brilliant minds from all over the world discussing CHM. Taking another step forward 🙏🏻🙏🏻@sharmaruchi29 @JKJolly4 @Vision_INM @elfridedebaere @MaliaEdwardsLab @MariyaMoosajee @MiguelSeabra6 @eyeMacLaren @rharbottle @mluisosca
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Happy to present our last research work on Ocular Gene Therapy at #ARVO2024, Seattle, WA! @MSeabraLab Thanks to @ChampalimaudF @curechm for their funding support. #Choroideremia #Inheritedretinaldiseases
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@curechm7 May 2024
International #Choroideremia research network #ICRN breakfast. Fantastic early morning meeting, scientific presentation, brilliant researchers from across the globe #CureCHM #TeamCHM
Large group of people standing in a conference room. Choroideremia researchers at the joint breakfast.

ALT Large group of people standing in a conference room. Choroideremia researchers at the joint breakfast.

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ONLINE NOW: Toward low-cost gene therapy: mRNA-based therapeutics for treatment of inherited retinal diseases dlvr.it/SzgyVm
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Amazing poster discussion at #ESGCT2023 - annual meeting, in Brussels.
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BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
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Our paper is now available at bioRxiv!
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3D human retinal organoid model for the study of early diabetic retinopathy biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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Happy to be part of the first CorEuStem Symposium on Standardizing Stem Cell Core Facilites in Europe, held at Champalimaud Foundation. Congratulations to the organization for these two great days of discussion. @CorEuStem @ChampalimaudF @COSTprogramme @MSeabraLab
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@curechm23 Mar 2023
Throssell-Hillier #Choroidermia award winners announced! Congratulations to Dr.Miguel Seabra Dr.Pedro Antas, Portugal: CRISPR-Based Gene Editing for CHM. ⁦@MiguelSeabra6⁩ ⁦@MSeabraLab⁩ einpresswire.com/article/623…
THROSSELL-HILLIER FAMILIES RESEARCH AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

THROSSELL-HILLIER FAMILIES RESEARCH AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Research will focus on choroideremia nonsense mutations

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.@TenreiroSandra da @nova_medschool está a desenvolver modelos de retina em laboratório que podem ser usados para estudar os mecanismos moleculares que levam ao desenvolvimento da retinopatia diabética. buff.ly/3Js6Efw #90SegundosCiência
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Choroideremia Research Foundation - Rare Disease Week 2023

Choroideremia Research Foundation - Rare Disease Week 2023

The Choroideremia Research Foundation (CRF) is participating in Rare Disease Day to raise research funds for CHM.

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@curechm27 Feb 2023
Tomorrow on #RareDiseaseDay- Prof. Mariya Moosajee will be presenting @TheCrick on #Choroideremia. Thank you @MariyaMoosajee for lighting up for rare on this day and all year long🙏🏻🌸
Prof Mariya Moosajee (@MariyaMoosajee) profile pictureProf Mariya Moosajee@MariyaMoosajee27 Feb 2023
Its a busy week ahead with #RareDiseaseDay tomorrow- I’ll be presenting @TheCrick on #Choroideremia- a rare #genetic eye disease. On Wed I’m joining @CUREUsher at #Westminster for the All Party Parliament Group #APPG focused on #UsherSyndrome @rarediseaseuk #LightUpForRare
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Using mRNA, researchers have developed a promising approach for the intracellular delivery of genes in the eye, which may have the potential to prevent vision loss for inherited retinal diseases. Learn more in this week’s issue of Science Advances: scim.ag/181
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Happy to share my first contribution at @TenreiroSandra Lab and @MSeabraLab Age-Related Changes of the Synucleins Profile in the Mouse Retina mdpi.com/2073100 #mdpibiomolecules a través de @Biomol_MDPI
Age-Related Changes of the Synucleins Profile in the Mouse Retina

Age-Related Changes of the Synucleins Profile in the Mouse Retina

Alpha-synuclein (aSyn) plays a central role in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and has been extensively studied in the brain. This protein is part of the synuclein family, which is also composed of beta-s...

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1/2 Congratulations to @ChampalimaudF's Pedro Antas & Miguel Seabra for winning the Throssell Hillier Families Research Award for their project proposal “#CRISPR Based Gene Editing for #Choroideremia”👏👏 @curechm @CRFCanada Photography credits: © João Balsa
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