Valentina Citro
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Biography
Valentina Citro is interested in developing Pharmacological Chaperones (PC) to cure rare diseases. She works on the identification of the mutations which can be responsive to chaperones and develop method for assays in vitro in two model systems: The Fabry disease, a lysosomal storage disorder and PMM2-CDG (CDG-Ia) disease, a disorder of glycosylation with no cure at present.
Abstract
Abstract : Pharmacological chaperones for curing enzymopathies: the case of lysosomal alpha-galactosidase