Rawiwan Watanadilok

Adviser: Anake Kijjoa

Co-adviser: Pichai Sonchaeng

Title: "Bioactive Secondary Metabolites of Marine Sponges from Thai Waters".

Expected date for defense: April 2003

Honorina Maria Matos Cidade

Advisor: Maria José Teixeira Guedes González.

Co-advisor: Anake Kijjoa.

Tittle: Structural Elucidation and Biological Activity of Compounds from Plants".

Expected data for defense: 2001.

Carmen Maribel Bento Teixeira

Advisor: Carlos Maurício Barbosa

Co-Advisors: Madalena M. M. Pinto

Title: "Drug Carrier Formulations for Xanthonic Derivatives"

Expected data for defense: 2002

Maria Manuela Rodrigues de Almeida Pinto

Advisor: Madalena M. M. Pinto

Title:"Xanthonic Derivatives with Simetric Substitutions: Synthesis, Structural Elucidation and Determination of Antitumor Activity"

Expected date for defense: 2002 (the advisee cancelled the scholarship by personal reasons)

Maria Emília da Silva Pereira de Sousa

Advisor: Madalena M. M. Pinto

Co-Advisors: Carlos Manuel Magalhães Afonso and Maria de São José Nascimento

Title: "Kielcorins and Xanthones with Potential Hepatoprotective Activity".

César Augusto Portela

Advisor: Carlos Manuel Magalhães Afonso

Co-Advisors: Madalena Maria Magalhães Pinto and Maria Isaura Sousa

Title: "Obtenção e estudo de derivados xantónicos candidatos a novos agentes anti-maláricos".

Expected date for defense: 2004

Nuno Jorge da Silva Pereira Milhazes

Advisor: Maria Fernanda Martins Borges de Mesquita

Co-adivisor: Félix Dias de Carvalho

Title: "Synthesis of thioeters of phenolic compounds. Evaluation of biological activity".

Expected date for defense: 2002

Maria de Fátima Araújo Magalhães Cerqueira

Advisor: Maria de São José G. A. Nascimento da Fonseca

Co-adivisor: Anake Kijjoa

Title: "Study of the Immunomodulatory Activity of Synthetic and Natural Compounds"

Maria Madalena Marques Pedro

Advisor: Maria de São José G. A. Nascimento da Fonseca

Co-adivisor: Madalena Maria de Magalhães Pinto

Title: "Study of the Anticancer Activity of Xanthones and Xanthonic Derivatives of Synthetic and Natural Compounds"

Carmen Diniz Pereira

Advisor: Jorge M.M. Gonçalves

Title: "Influence of ATP degradation and of purinergic modulation on the importance of ATP as motor transmitter"

Expected date for defense: 2002

Lucília Helena Ataíde Saraiva

Advisor: Jorge M.M.Gonçalves

Co-advisors: Paula da Cruz Fresco and Maria Eugénia Pinto

Title: "Structure-activity analysis of PKC activators and inhibitors for a selective action on PKC isoforms calcium dependents"

Expected date for defense: 2003

Agostinho Cruz

Advisor: Zaida Azeredo

Co-advisors: Maria Isaura Sousa and Miguel Albuquerque F. Cabral

Title: "Estudo de parasitoses intestinais em crianças da cidade do Porto. Análise da sensibilidade farmacológica de diferentes isolados de Giardia lamblia".

Expected date for defense: 2002

Cornélia Garrido Sousa Castro

Advisor: Carlos Manuel Magalhães Afonso

Title: "Doseamento de Hidrocarbonetos Aromáticos Policíclicos em solos florestais"

Date for defense: 15th February 2001.

Patrícia Silva

Advisors: Carlos Manuel Magalhães Afonso and Maria do Céu Costa

Title: "VOCs em ambientes laboratoriais"

Date for defense: 2002.

José Luís de Freitas Andrade

Advisor: Maria de Lourdes Souteiro Bastos

Co-advisor :Maria Fernanda Martins Borges de Mesquita; Eduarda das Graças Rodrigues Fernandes

Title: -"Synthesis and evaluation of antioxidant and pro-oxidant activity of phenolic acids and derivatives" "

Date of defense: 2001

Raquel Esteves de Menezes Correia

Advisor: Maria Beatriz Garcia Quinaz/ Maria Fernanda Martins Borges de Mesquita

Title: - "Evaluation of physicochemical parameters of food additives"

Date of defense: 2001

Susana Maria Miranda Teixeira

Advisor: Maria Salette Hipólito Reis/ Maria Fernanda Martins Borges de Mesquita

Title: - "Evaluation of physicochemical parameters of phenolic compounds found in grapes and wine"

Date of defense: 2001

Serafim E. D. Duarte

Advisor: Maria Eugénia Pinto

Co-advisors: Maria São José Nascimento

Title: "Antifungal activity of natural and synthetic phenolic compounds"