Biography & Research:
Armanda E. Santos is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy University of Coimbra and Principal Investigator at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra. She investigates molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in order to reveal new therapeutic targets and to design suitable therapeutic strategies for this neurodegenerative disorder. In the last years she has been developing new BACE1 inhibitors that have the potential to act as selective disease-modifying drugs preventing brain deficits associated to AD.