Bruno Castro, PhD,  —

Bruno has a PhD in Chemistry from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. He did his undergraduate studies in Biochemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon University, Portugal. For the past years he was as a Postdoctoral Researcher at ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, working in the intersection between biophysical-chemistry, cell biology and immunology.

Articles by Bruno Castro

Researchers Discuss the Possible Role of Autoimmune Alterations in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Pathogenesis

Last year, a study entitled “T-Helper 17 Cell Polarization in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension” published in the Chest journal associated the increased activity of a T-cell-mediated immune process — the T-helper 17 pathway — with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). This research is now being contested by a group of researchers…


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