Clara Baeta Martins

Clara Sofia Baeta Martins is PhD student in the doctoral program in Biosciences with specialization in Biochemistry at the R&D Unit “Molecular Physical-Chemistry” of the University of Coimbra (QFM-UC). Her main field of interest is vibrational spectroscopy applied to Medicinal Chemistry – development of new Pt- and Pd- based compounds with potential anticancer activity. The main techniques used are vibrational spectroscopy (FTIR, microRaman and microFTIR) coupled with cell biological assays. She participated as a research fellow in two projects, NoMorFilm (Horizon 2020 EU Grant 634588) and VibsOnCancer (C491215625-00083205). She is the author and co-author of articles in international journals with scientific arbitration, author of three book’s chapters and has several oral and panel communications at various scientific meetings.

Publications

Pd(II) and Pt(II) Trinuclear Chelates with Spermidine: Selective Anticancer Activity towards TNBC-Sensitive and-Resistant to Cisplatin
M. Vojtek, C.B. Martins, R. Ramos, S.G. Duarte, I.M.P.L.V.O. Ferreira, A.L.M. Batista de Carvalho, M.P.M. Marques, C. Diniz
Pharmaceutics 15(4), 1205 (2023)

Strategy and design of innovation policy road mapping for microalgae-based foods
M.J. Barroca, S.G. Florença, C.B. Martins, R.P.F. Guiné
In Handbook of Food and Feed from Microalgae, Academic Press, 625-642 (2023)

Cellular Dynamics as a Marker of Normal-to-Cancer Transition in Human Cells
M.P.M. Marques, A.L.M. Batista de Carvalho, C.B. Martins, J.D. Silva, M. Sarter, V. García Sakai, R. Stewart, L.A.E. Batista de Carvalho
Scientific Reports 13, 21709 (2023)

A Non-Conventional Platinum Drug against a Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Line
J.D. Silva, J. Marques, I.P. Santos, A.L.M. Batista de Carvalho, C.B. Martins, R.C. Laginha, L.A.E. Batista de Carvalho, M.P.M. Marques
Molecules 28(4), 1698 (2023)

Evaluation of the Cytotoxic Effect of Pd₂Spm against Prostate Cancer through Vibrational Microspectroscopies
R.C. Laginha, C.B. Martins, A.L.C. Brandão, J. Marques, M.P.M. Marques, L.A.E. Batista de Carvalho, I.P. Santos, A.L.M. Batista de Carvalho
International Journal of Molecular Sciences 24(3), 1888 (2023)

Water dynamics in human cancer and non-cancer tissues
M.P.M. Marques, I.P. Santos, A.L.M. Batista de Carvalho, A.P. Mamede, C.B. Martins, P. Figueiredo, M. Sarter, V. Garcia Sakai, L.A.E. Batista de Carvalho
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 24(25), 15406–15415 (2022)

Who’s who? Discrimination of human breast cancer cell lines by Raman and FTIR microspectroscopy
I.P. Santos, C.B. Martins, L.A.E. Batista de Carvalho, M.P.M. Marques, A.L.M. Batista de Carvalho
Cancers 14(2), 452 (2022)

Microalgae Biomass as an Alternative to Fossil Carbons
J.D. Ferreira, C.B. Martins, M.F.G. Assunção, L.M.A. Santos
Biomass, Bioproducts and Biofuels, CRC Press, 159-172 (2022)

Anticancer compounds from freshwater microalgae
C. Martins, S. Silvestre, L. Santos
Algal Genetic Resources Cosmeceuticals, Nutraceuticals, and Pharmaceuticals from Algae, AAP/CRC press (2021)

Astaxanthin in microalgae Eustigmatophyceae
C.B. Martins, M.F.G. Assunção, J.D. Ferreira, L.M.A. Santos
Global Perspectives on Astaxanthin, Academic Press, 61-70 (2021)

Preclinical pharmacokinetics and biodistribution of anticancer dinuclear palladium (II)-Spermine complex (Pd₂Spm) in mice
M. Vojtek, S. Gonçalves-Monteiro, E. Pinto, S. Kalivodová, A. Almeida, M.P.M. Marques, A.L.M. Batista de Carvalho, C.B. Martins, F.H. Mota, I.M.P.L.V.O Ferreira, C. Diniz
Pharmaceuticals 14(2), 173 (2021)

Microalgae and cyanobacteria strains as producers of lipids with antibacterial and antibiofilm activity
V. Cepas, I. Gutiérrez-Del-Río, Y. López, S. Redondo-Blanco, Y. Gabasa, M.J. Iglesias, R. Soengas, A. Fernández-Lorenzo, S. López-Ibáñez, C.J. Villar, C.B. Martins, J.D. Ferreira, M.F.G. Assunção, L.M.A. Santos, J. Morais, R. Castelo-Branco, M.A. Reis, V. Vasconcelos, F. López-Ortiz, F. Lombó, S. M. Soto,
Marine Drugs 19(12), 675 (2021)

Eustigmatophyte strains with potential interest in cancer prevention and treatment: Partial chemical characterization and evaluation of cytotoxic and antioxidant activity
C.B. Martins, O. Ferreira, T. Rosado, E. Gallardo, S. Silvestre, L.M.A. Santos
Biotechnology Letters 43(7), 1487-1502 (2021)

Chemotaxonomic Profiling Through NMR¹
M.J. Iglesias, R. Soengas, C.B. Martins, M.J. Correia, J.D. Ferreira, L.M.A Santos, F. L. Ortiz
Journal of Phycology 56(2), 521-539 (2020)

Inhibition of bacterial and fungal biofilm formation by 675 extracts from microalgae and cyanobacteria
V. Cepas, Y. López, Y. Gabasa, C.B. Martins, J.D. Ferreira, M.J. Correia, L.M.A. Santos, F. Oliveira, V. Ramos, M. Reis, R. Castelo-Branco, J. Morais, V. Vasconcelos, I. Probert, E. Guilloud, M. Mehiri, S.M. Soto
Antibiotics 8(2), 77 (2019)

Screening microalgae as potential sources of antioxidants
M.F. Assunção, R. Amaral, C.B. Martins, J.D. Ferreira, S. Ressurreição, S.D. Santos, J.M.T.B. Varejão, L.M.A. Santos
Journal of Applied Phycology 29(2), 865-877 (2017)

Biotechnological potential of Haematococcus pluvialis Flotow ACOI 3380
C.B. Martins, J.M. Varejão, L.M.A Santos
Nova Hedwigia, 547-559 (2016)