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-Aviles

Chapter 2 Recent Advances of Medicinal Properties of Vanadium Compounds: Cancer and Other Diseases

Kateryna Kostenkova, Kameron Klugh, and Debbie C. Crans

Chapter 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 Silva

Chapter 4 Metal Complexes as Probes and Inhibitors of Metabolic Enzymes

Madeline Denison, Claudia Turro, and Jeremy J. Kodanko

Chapter 5 Heme-Based Therapeutics

Elmira Alipour, Mark T. Gladwin, and Daniel B. Kim-Shapiro

Chapter 6 Metal-Containing and Metal-Associated Dietary Nutrients

Rebeca L. Fernandez, Vanessa J. Lee, and Marie C. Heffern

Chapter 7 Why is Gadolinium Still Preferred in Contrast Agents for MRI?

Mark Woods and Mauro Botta