Portuguese Award for Best Master Thesis in Medicinal Chemistry 2023

Catarina Maria who carried out her MSc Thesis at the Carbohydrate Chemistry Group (G11) was one of the awardees of the Portuguese Award for Best Master Thesis in Medicinal Chemistry 2023 attributed by the Portuguese Chemical Society (SPQ) and sponsored by Fundação Jacqueline Dias de Sousa, with the MSc Thesis entitled “Exploring synthetic approaches of purine nucleosides as potential copper chelators and cholinesterase inhibitors”, supervised by Prof. Amélia Pilar Rauter and Dr. Nuno Manuel Xavier. The award was delivered during the 15th National Organic Chemistry Meeting (15ENQO) and the 8th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting (8ENQT).
Currently, Catarina is a PhD student at the Carbohydrate Chemistry Group with a FCT studentship, working on the development of new sugar-based antibacterial prodrugs to fight multidrug-resistant bacteria.