About
Antonio González-Sarrías obtained his Bachelor Degree in Biology (University of Murcia-UMU, Murcia, Spain) in 2003. From September 2003 to June 2005, he was collaborating at the Cell Biology Department (Faculty of Biology, UMU). He carried out his PhD studies from 2005 to 2009 at the Research Group on Quality, Safety, and Bioactivity of Plant Foods in CEBAS-CSIC (Murcia, Spain), funded by a FPI grant from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Spanish Government. From May 2010 to May 2012 he continued working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Bioactive Botanical Research Laboratory, College of Pharmacy at the University of Rhode Island (Rhode Island, USA) under the supervision of Professor Navindra P. Seeram. In June 2012, he returned to CEBAS-CSIC with a postdoctoral contract. In January 2014 he started to work as a postdoctoral scientist with a “Juan de la Cierva” grant for three years, until December 2016, from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government (Spain). Next, he kept working as a postdoc as a member of the Food & Health Lab (CEBAS-CSIC) until July 2018 that he achieved the position of Tenured Scientist-CSIC at CEBAS-CSIC. He has developed an active research program for the last 18 years related to health-diet interaction. The main line of research is based on the identification of plant foods polyphenols that could have a beneficial effect on health, particularly against colorectal and breast cancer, intestinal inflammation and cardiovascular diseases, to evaluate whether polyphenols are responsible for that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables is correlated with a lower incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancer. This goal is approached in a multidisciplinary way covering from preclinical studies (cell culture and animal models) and human studies, and intending to establish the physiological conditions at which polyphenols or their derived metabolites (phase II or microbial) exert their action in the potential target organs of these compounds. Thus, taking into account the observed effects in vivo we perform, in physiologically relevant conditions, in vitro mechanistic studies to identify the pathways involved in the observed processes.