Rui Castro
Rui Castro (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7417-0091) is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon and Principal Investigator at The Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa). The research being developed by Castro combines his solid background in the modulation of liver cell function by bile acids with his most recent discoveries in the miRNA field, to answer fundamental questions on the pathogenesis and therapeutic targeting of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Well-established in vitro and in vivo models of disease, human patient’s biopsies and liver-specific miRNA knockout animals are being used in multi-layered pharmacological approaches aiming to ultimately bring miRNA therapies to the liver clinical setting.
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