**About the Editor**

#### **Dinorah Gambino**

Dinorah Gambino is a Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry of Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay. She got both Doctor in Pharmaceutical ´ Technology and Doctor in Chemistry degrees from this Faculty. She leads a group working on Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry whose research is focused on the development of multiple-target organometallic and classical coordination compounds as prospective drugs for the treatment of diseases that seriously affect Latin American countries: Chagas disease or American Trypanosomiasis, Leishmaniasis, Tuberculosis and Cancer. Currently, the research of this group focuses on the development of broad-spectrum multi-functional metal compounds that could affect more than one trypanosomatid parasite: *Trypanosoma cruzi* (Chagas disease), *Leishmania infantum* (visceral Leishmaniasis) and *Trypanosoma brucei* (African Trypanosomiasis).

In this context, her group works intensively on the rational design and study of new vanadium compounds as prospective agents against *Trypanosoma cruzi*.
