During her intervention, the professor will present her last advances on the relation of genetics and food and its correlation with diseases like obesity or diabetes, among others.

Dolores Corella has been recently awarded with the Jaume I award for Medical Research. She has been a professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine and Odontology of the Universitat de València since 2009 and director of the UV Research Unit of Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology since 1998 and the CIBEROBN group since 2006.

She started her career in biomedical research at the Institute of Cytological Investigations of Valencia, where she focused her studies in the genomics applied to the prevention of cardiometabolic diseases and specialised in the study of gene-environment interactions. Among the environmental factors, she focused on diet, and she has been a pioneer, along with José María Ordovás, in the development of Nutritional Genomics.

She has published more than 325 articles in famous international magazines and she has supervised more than 20 doctoral thesis. Currently she focuses her research in the integration of omics with nutrition and gastronomy to provide a more holistic point of view about health.