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NutrInsight • Do we need dietary polyphenols for health?
Appendix: Biographies of the speakers
Prof Francisco A. Tomás Barberán Research Professor, CEBAS-CSIC, Murcia, Spain
fatomas@cebas.csic.es
PhD in Pharmacy, Valencia University, Research Professor of CSIC in Murcia (Spain). Co-author of more 250 publications in scientific journals of the areas of Phytochemistry, Agricultural Chemistry, and Food Science and Nutrition. These articles have been cited over 7000 times with an H index of 48. He has developed more than 80 research projects and contracts with industry. He is interested in the role of phenolic phytochemicals on food quality and health. His current research aims to the identification of those food constituents that provide health benefits, the mechanisms by which they act and the effect of genetic, agronomic and processing factors on these metabolites, their bioavailability and the efficacy in humans. He has supervised 20 PhD Thesis and has carried out research in laboratories from England (Reading), Switzerland (Lausanne), France (Lyon), and the USA (Davis). His research has also been oriented to the transfer to industry and he has registered 6 patents of which 3 have been licensed and derived products are actually in the market. He was awarded with the Rhone Poulenc Rorer Award by the Phytochemical Society of Europe in 1997, the Ramón Frial Award, on Food and Health Research in 2004 and the Danone Award to Nutrition and Health Research in 2006. He is Associate editor of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of different Companies and of the European Joint Programming Initiative ‘A Health Diet for a healthy Life’.
Dr Paul Kroon
Research Leader, Plant Natural Products & Health Programme Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK
paul.kroon@ifr.ac.uk
Paul Kroon completed an honours degree in botany at the University of Durham and a PhD in plant secondary metabolism at the University of Hull before joining the Institute of Food Research in Norwich as a biochemist. After a few years working on the enzymology of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes, Paul started to work on flavonoids and other dietary phenolics. He has led the Polyphenols and Health group at IFR since 2001.
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