Marzia Conte obtained her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Biomedical Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino and carried out a Master's thesis in Professor Cauda's TNHLab, taking part in a project funded by the European Community under Grant Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions obtained by Dr. Sugata Barui, a former postdoc of the research group. She focused on studying and treating pancreatic cancer and its tumor microenvironment with a multifunctional nanostructure based on doped ZnO nanoparticles. She has followed the process and design of this nanoconstruct from the very beginning (chemical synthesis, characterizations, chemotherapeutic drug uptake, lipid coating), especially in the TNH chemical lab. She joined the lab as a Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering. She spent the first six months of the scholarship undergoing extensive training in the cellular lab to be capable of applying, first-hand, the results of her research by achieving full working autonomy. In the meantime, she further investigated and thoroughly studied pancreatic cancer and lipidic coatings and developed a new formulation of lipids to cover zinc oxide nanoparticles to provide them with biostability and biomimicry. Her Ph.D. project focuses on applying these nanoconstructs to pancreatic cancer cells, eventually leading to a multimodal therapy that will include sonodynamics and is meant to overcome the limitations of conventional therapies, with the prospect of future in vivo applications.