Posts by: Patricia Silva PhD

Patricia Silva PhD

Patrícia holds her PhD in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases from the Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden, The Netherlands. She has studied Applied Biology at Universidade do Minho and was a postdoctoral research fellow at Instituto de Medicina Molecular in Lisbon, Portugal. Her work has been focused on molecular genetic traits of infectious agents such as viruses and parasites.

September 11, 2015September 11, 2015

Swecure Therapy For Allergy and Inflammatory Diseases Prevention Approved in the United States

News

Swecure AB, a Swedish biotechnology company focused on new treatment strategies for immunoregulatory diseases like allergy and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), has recently received a patent approval grant from the ... Read more

September 10, 2015September 10, 2015

CHOP Researchers Discover Genetic Variants Linked to Very Early Onset IBD in Children

News

A study led by researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) revealed specific genetic variants carried by children with very early onset of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The study ... Read more

September 8, 2015September 8, 2015

Review Explores Link Between IBD, Th17 Immune Cells and Probiotics as a Potential Therapeutic Strategy

IBD News, News

A review study recently published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences focused on the role played by specific immune cells in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), and their potential use ... Read more

June 24, 2015June 24, 2015

New Study Reveals Safe, Effective Therapy for Active Ulcerative Colitis

News, Ulcerative colitis

A new study conducted by an international research team recently revealed that the corticosteroid, beclomethasone dipropionate (BDP), can be successfully employed as a treatment strategy for patients with active mild-to-moderate ... Read more

June 15, 2015September 16, 2016

Vitamin D Supplementation May Offer a Beneficial Effect for Crohn’s Disease Patients

Crohn's Disease, News

An international team led by researchers at St. James’s Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, recently reported that vitamin D may have a beneficial impact on the intestinal barrier dysfunction associated with ... Read more

May 26, 2015May 26, 2015

Critical MicroRNA Found To Contribute To The Inflammatory Phenotype in IBD

IBD News, News

Researchers at the University of Padova in Italy discovered that a high expression of a small RNA molecule known as microRNA-155 leads to the inflammatory phenotype typically seen in patients ... Read more

April 17, 2015September 28, 2016

FDA Authorizes Soligenix’s Pivotal Phase 3 Clinical Trial for Pediatric Crohn’s Disease Therapy

Crohn's Disease, News

Biopharmaceutical company Soligenix, Inc. recently announced in a news release that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial to assess the efficacy ... Read more

April 14, 2015

Researchers Reveal Only a Modest Association Between Gene Expression and Microbiota in IBD Patients

News

A study recently published in the journal Genome Biology analyzed the possible association between host gene expression, the mucosal microbiota and clinical outcome in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). ... Read more

April 13, 2015April 13, 2015

Fecal Immunochemical Test Found to Be an Accurate Predictor of Mucosal Status in Ulcerative Colitis Patients

News, Ulcerative colitis

Researchers at the Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Wakayama Medical University in Japan recently revealed that two assays, fecal immunochemical test (FIT) and fecal calprotectin ... Read more

March 23, 2015

Delayed Growth in Children May Be a Sign of IBD, Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital Pediatricians Caution

IBD News, News

According to researchers at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital, symptoms in children such as a delay in growth, weight loss, failure to gain weight, or persistent stomach pain with diarrhea or ... Read more