Mariana Simões, a student at the Technological and Nuclear Campus in Loures, recently defended her Master's thesis in Chemical Engineering, titled "TMoMa – Therapeutic Molecular Materials: Unveiling the Therapeutic Promise of [Au(dcbdt)2]".

Mariana's thesis focused on the synthesis and characterization of gold bisdithiolate complexes with different cations, aiming to evaluate how these influence cytotoxicity in ovarian cancer cells. The work was conducted under the guidance of researchers Dulce Belo and Sandra Rabaça from the Center for Nuclear Sciences at Técnico.

This study is part of the "T-MoMa: Therapeutic Molecular Materials" initiative, a scientific line that explores transition metal bisdithiolate complexes as potential new therapeutic agents.

Congratulations to Mariana on her academic achievement!