Eduarda Ventura is a Portuguese PhD student in the group of Professor Stefano Gianni, at the Department of Biochemical Sciences of Sapienza University of Rome. From a Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology background, her PhD research aims at understanding the folding and binding properties of two proteins that include intrinsically disordered regions: MINT2 - a protein with major importance in Alzheimer’s pathophysiology - and MAGI1 - a scaffolding protein with potent tumor suppressor activity.