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Livia Piatti

@liviapiatti.bsky.social

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Bioengineering | Neurobiology and Infection | @LifeArc Knowledge Transfer Innovation Fellow | @EMBL Alumna

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rorykmlong.bsky.social @rorykmlong.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Today my main PHD project in the lab of Dr. Maria Bernabeu was published! Using a 3D brain microvessel model, we show: 1) an unappreciated role of brain pericytes in cerebral malaria pathogenesis 2) Tie-2 activation by AKB-9778 as a potential therapeutic avenue www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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Maria Bernabeu @mariabernabeu.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Pre-print alert 🚨 We answer a longstanding question in the field. Do immune cells cause cerebral malaria? The answer is YES!!!! And independently of P. falciparum accumulation in the brain. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Innate immune responses to Plasmodium falciparum disrupt the blood-brain barrier

Plasmodium falciparum accumulation at the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a hallmark of cerebral malaria, a life-threatening complication. Conversely, the contribution of the immune response to vascular ...

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EMBL @embl.org · 18/09/2025

EMBL Barcelona researchers have created a lab-grown blood-brain barrier to show how the malaria parasite damages it, and have successfully tested potential therapeutics that could help prevent or even reverse the damage. #tissuebiology www.embl.org/news/science...

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Livia Piatti @liviapiatti.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Exciting to see our paper finally out ✨ Shoutout to my amazing co-first author @alinabatzi.bsky.social and group leader @mariabernabeu.bsky.social for these great years of working together. And a big thank you to everyone involved!

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