Ana de Bettencourt-Dias received her ‘licenciatura’ (MS equivalent) in Technological Chemistry from the University of Lisbon in 1993, and her ‘Dr. rer. nat.’ (PhD equivalent) in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Cologne in 1997 with Prof. Thomas Kruck. In her graduate work, she isolated new titanium complexes as single source precursors for the chemical vapor deposition of TiN thin layers. She joined the group of Prof. Alan Balch at UC Davis in 1998 as a Gulbenkian postdoctoral fellow, where she studied the electrochemistry and structure of fullerenes and endohedral fullerenes.

• Chapter 1 Electrochemical Sensors with Inorganic Redox Mediators Mario A. Alpuche-AvilesChapter 2 Recent Advances of Medicinal Properties of Vanadium Compounds: Cancer and Other Diseases Kateryna Kostenkova, Kameron Klugh, and Debbie C. CransChapter 3 Ruthenium-Phthalocyanine Compounds as Prototypes for Photodynamic Therapy Amanda Blanque Becceneri, Matheus Torelli Martin, Francisco Rinaldi Neto, Peter C. Ford, and Roberto Santana da SilvaChapter 4 Metal Complexes as Probes and Inhibitors of Metabolic Enzymes Madeline Denison, Claudia Turro, and Jeremy J. KodankoChapter 5 Heme-Based Therapeutics Elmira Alipour, Mark T. Gladwin, and Daniel B. Kim-ShapiroChapter 6 Metal-Containing and Metal-Associated Dietary Nutrients Rebeca L. Fernandez, Vanessa J. Lee, and Marie C. HeffernChapter 7 Why is Gadolinium Still Preferred in Contrast Agents for MRI?Mark Woods and Mauro Botta

Ana de Bettencourt-Dias received her ‘licenciatura’ (MS equivalent) in Technological Chemistry from the University of Lisbon in 1993, and her ‘Dr. rer. nat.’ (PhD equivalent) in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Cologne in 1997 with Prof. Thomas Kruck. In her graduate work, she isolated new titanium complexes as single source precursors for the chemical vapor deposition of TiN thin layers. She joined the group of Prof. Alan Balch at UC Davis in 1998 as a Gulbenkian postdoctoral fellow, where she studied the electrochemistry and structure of fullerenes and endohedral fullerenes.

• Chapter 1 Electrochemical Sensors with Inorganic Redox Mediators Mario A. Alpuche-AvilesChapter 2 Recent Advances of Medicinal Properties of Vanadium Compounds: Cancer and Other Diseases Kateryna Kostenkova, Kameron Klugh, and Debbie C. CransChapter 3 Ruthenium-Phthalocyanine Compounds as Prototypes for Photodynamic Therapy Amanda Blanque Becceneri, Matheus Torelli Martin, Francisco Rinaldi Neto, Peter C. Ford, and Roberto Santana da SilvaChapter 4 Metal Complexes as Probes and Inhibitors of Metabolic Enzymes Madeline Denison, Claudia Turro, and Jeremy J. KodankoChapter 5 Heme-Based Therapeutics Elmira Alipour, Mark T. Gladwin, and Daniel B. Kim-ShapiroChapter 6 Metal-Containing and Metal-Associated Dietary Nutrients Rebeca L. Fernandez, Vanessa J. Lee, and Marie C. HeffernChapter 7 Why is Gadolinium Still Preferred in Contrast Agents for MRI?Mark Woods and Mauro Botta

Ana de Bettencourt-Dias received her ‘licenciatura’ (MS equivalent) in Technological Chemistry from the University of Lisbon in 1993, and her ‘Dr. rer. nat.’ (PhD equivalent) in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Cologne in 1997 with Prof. Thomas Kruck. In her graduate work, she isolated new titanium complexes as single source precursors for the chemical vapor deposition of TiN thin layers. She joined the group of Prof. Alan Balch at UC Davis in 1998 as a Gulbenkian postdoctoral fellow, where she studied the electrochemistry and structure of fullerenes and endohedral fullerenes.

• Chapter 1 Electrochemical Sensors with Inorganic Redox Mediators Mario A. Alpuche-AvilesChapter 2 Recent Advances of Medicinal Properties of Vanadium Compounds: Cancer and Other Diseases Kateryna Kostenkova, Kameron Klugh, and Debbie C. CransChapter 3 Ruthenium-Phthalocyanine Compounds as Prototypes for Photodynamic Therapy Amanda Blanque Becceneri, Matheus Torelli Martin, Francisco Rinaldi Neto, Peter C. Ford, and Roberto Santana da SilvaChapter 4 Metal Complexes as Probes and Inhibitors of Metabolic Enzymes Madeline Denison, Claudia Turro, and Jeremy J. KodankoChapter 5 Heme-Based Therapeutics Elmira Alipour, Mark T. Gladwin, and Daniel B. Kim-ShapiroChapter 6 Metal-Containing and Metal-Associated Dietary Nutrients Rebeca L. Fernandez, Vanessa J. Lee, and Marie C. HeffernChapter 7 Why is Gadolinium Still Preferred in Contrast Agents for MRI?Mark Woods and Mauro Botta