Research Areas
- Gene-nutrient interactions: Nutrigenomics, Nutrigenetics.
- Nutraceuticals, Immunonutrition.
- Study of non-communicable diseases related to nutritional imbalances such as obesity, type II diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, eating disorders and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders caused by alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
- Metagenomic studies focused on the impact of the microbiota and its alterations on human health. Probiotics-based interventions.
- Epidemiology of chronic non-communicable and acute communicable diseases in European and Ibero-American populations.
- Study of pathologies produced during the perinatal period by external agents such as pollutants or drug abuse.
- Molecular, genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of cancer, neurological, cardiovascular, ocular and rare diseases.
- Links between health and lifestyle (nutrition, exercise, stress...).
- Health promotion. Health education and literacy as well as family and community action/intervention.
- Neuropsychological studies on brain injury and neurodevelopmental disorders. Interventions for the cognitive improvement of the patients.
- Research on socioemotional aspects and quality of life of oncology patients.
- Prevention and psychosocial or neuropsychological approach to substance and non- substance addictions.
- Causal factors and potential therapeutic tools in mental illnesses.
- Studies in education and health regarding socioemotional aspects and their connection with behaviors in childhood, adolescence and adulthood which leads to the appearance of diseases.
- Bioinformatics applied to genomics and epigenomics.
- Bioinformatics applied to metabolomics.
- Bioinformatics applied to pharmacology for Drug Discovery.
- Machine learning and Big Data applied to health sciences.
