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Authors
Antonio Agudo
Head of the Unit of Nutrition and Cancer at the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO). Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
Antonio Agudo is a physician with an expertise in epidemiology, preventive medicine and public health. He graduated in Medicine (MD) at the University of Barcelona and has a Master of Sciences in Clinical Epidemiology from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. He completed his doctoral training at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he obtained a PhD in Public Health and Methodology of Biomedical Research.
Dr. Agudo started to work in cancer epidemiology by conducting case-control studies on lung cancer, mesothelioma, and head-and-neck cancer. He was involved in the design of and recruitment for the European Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) project, a large multicentric cohort study which was carried out in ten European countries. Since 1999, he is employed at the Catalan Institute of Oncology, where he currently holds a position as Head of the Unit of Nutrition and Cancer. He is also the coordinator of the EPIC cohort in Spain and the representative of EPIC-Spain at the EPIC Steering Committee, as well as a member of several other working groups of EPIC-Europe.
Raul Zamora-Ros
Researcher
Dr. Raul Zamora-Ros is graduated in both Nutrition and Food Science and also obtained a master on Statistics and Epidemiology. He earned his PhD in Nutrition from the University of Barcelona in 2008. He did his PostDoc on Nutritional Epidemiology at the IDIBELL, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the University of Cambridge, before joining his current position as principal investigator at the Unit of Nutrition and Cancer (IDIBELL) since February 2016. He is interested in whether dietary factors, particularly polyphenols and polyphenol-rich foods, are causally associated with the development of chronic diseases. He has published over 80 peer-review articles and above 10 book chapters in his area.
Mireia Félez Nóbrega
Postdoctoral researcher at Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu.
Mireia Felez-Nobrega, PhD, M.Sc, has a Master degree in Neuroscience and a PhD in Cognitive Psychology and Exercise Science. She was a visiting PhD student at Center for Cognitive and Brain Health (Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, USA). She currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu. Her main areas on interest are related to lifestyle behaviors (physical activity and sedentary behavior) and their impact on cognitive abilities and overall brain health, health promotion, cognitive neuroscience, and prevention of mental disorders.
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