Serena’s project on Innovative therapy for skin-directed psoriasis, got awarded a Caixa impulse (VALIDATE) scholarship.

Psoriasis is a chronic and painful skin disease. Current treatments targeting immune cells are very effective but, in the long term, can have adverse side effects, including immunosuppression and cancer. The project proposes an innovative treatment that targets at a protein that is exclusively expressed in the keratinocytes of the skin and that could be as effective as current treatments while avoiding immunosuppressive effects. Therefore they are developing candidate drugs that can block the activity of this protein and that will be tested as a reliable treatment for psoriasis in future clinical trials.

Congratulations to Serena on the scholarship and the progress in such an interesting project.

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