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HURTADO BARROSO, Sara

HURTADO BARROSO, Sara

Professor Lectora
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Department of Biomedical Sciences
  • Academic training
  • Professional experience
    • Articles
  • Subjects taught

Academic training

PhD in Food and Nutrition, UNIVERSITAT OF BARCELONA
Master's Degree in Biomedical Knowledge Management and Clinical Research, UNIVERSIDAD OF EXTREMADURA
Master Scientific Departments of the Pharmaceutical Industry, UNIVERSITAT OF BARCELONA
Graduated in Biology, UNIVERSIDAD OF EXTREMADURA
Degree in Biology, UNIVERSIDAD OF EXTREMADURA

Professional experience

June 2023–Currently: Clinical Trial and Project Management in Food & Nutrition area – IDIBAPS, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona (Postdoc contract)
• Management of clinical trials
• Clinical trial design and execution
• Project Management
• Research
• Redaction projects
• Sampling
• Organization
• Teaching
• Tutoring of a PhD, as well as projects from master’s and bachelor’s degree
March 2022–Currently: Associate Professor – University of Barcelona Teaching in master’s degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Nutrition, Chronic Diseases and Healthy Ageing)
February 2023–Currently: Senior Scientific Advisor - Caring Collective. Collaboration as scientific advisor in a program based on initiatives/services of education, research and consultancy in Science of Nutrition, Wellbeing & Health Aging. Doing tasks related to management support, project management, education, research & innovation and content creation.
March 2023–Currently: Senior Medical Marketing Consultant – Et al pharma. Medical Affairs, Medical Writing, Medical Education, Strategy interpretation.
February 2022–February 2023: Medical Affairs Department (Medical Advisor / MSL), Amgen Medical Affairs, Medical Plan, Medical Education, Scientific Communication, Digital Project Management, Medical writing.
November 2020–February 2022: Postdoctoral Research Contract – Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBEROBN)
December 2019–November 2020: Postdoctoral Research Contract – University of Barcelona
October 2015–October 2019: Predoctoral Research Contract, Trainee teaching staff grant (FPU) – University of Barcelona

Publications

  • Food and Function, Resting-state brain connectivity following extra virgin olive oil intake in healthy adults
    Name: Gutiérrez-Romero, Rocío M.; Donat-Vargas, Carolina; Muñoz-Moreno, Emma; Hinojosa-Moscoso, Alejandro; Galkina, Polina; Arancibia-Riveros, Camila; Domínguez-López, Inés; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Pérez, Maria; Vallverdú-Queralt, Anna; Casas, Rosa; Estruch, Ramón; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2026
    Start page: 3477 End page: 3483 Vol.: 17 No.: 8
    DOI: 10.1039/d5fo05016b ISSN or title: 2042-6496
  • Antioxidants, Unveiling the Impact of Peanut Consumption on Telomere Length in Young and Healthy Individuals
    Name: Torres-Oteros, Daniel; Parilli-Moser, Isabella; Laveriano Santos, Emily P.; Becerra-Tomás, Nerea; Sanz-Lamora, Héctor; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Haro, Diego; Marrero, Pedro F.; Lamuela-Raventos, Rosa M.; Relat, Joana; Canudas, Silvia Role: Autor Publishing date: 2025
    Vol.: 14 No.: 4
    DOI: 10.3390/antiox14040467
  • Journal of functional foods, Consumption of peanut products enhances the production of microbial phenolic metabolites related with memory and stress response
    Name: Parilli-Moser, Isabella; López-Solís, Ricardo; Domínguez-López, Inés; Vallverdú-Queralt, Anna; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2023
    Vol.: 108
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jff.2023.105746 ISSN or title: 1756-4646
  • Antioxidants, Urinary Phenolic Metabolites Associated with Peanut Consumption May Have a Beneficial Impact on Vascular Health Biomarkers
    Name: Parilli-Moser, Isabella; Domínguez-López, Inés; Vallverdú-Queralt, Anna; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2023
    Vol.: 12 No.: 3
    DOI: 10.3390/antiox12030698
  • Antioxidants, Effect of Crushing Peanuts on Fatty Acid and Phenolic Bioaccessibility
    Name: Parilli-Moser, Isabella; Domínguez-López, Inés; Arancibia-Riveros, Camila; Marhuenda-Muñoz, María; Vallverdú-Queralt, Anna; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2022
    Vol.: 11 No.: 2
    DOI: 10.3390/antiox11020423
  • Clinical nutrition, Consumption of peanut products improves memory and stress response in healthy adults from the ARISTOTLE study
    Name: Parilli-Moser, Isabella; Domínguez-López, Inés; Trius-Soler, Marta; Castellví, Magda; Bosch, Beatriz; Castro-Barquero, Sara; Estruch, Ramón; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2021
    Start page: 5556 End page: 5567 Vol.: 40 No.: 11
    DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.09.020 ISSN or title: 0261-5614
  • Food Research International, Cuisinomics
    Name: Rinaldi de Alvarenga, José Fernando; Quifer-Rada, Paola; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Illan, Montserrat; Torrado-Prat, Xavier; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2020
    Vol.: 138
    DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2020.109787 ISSN or title: 0963-9969
  • Antioxidants, Increase of 4-hydroxybenzoic, a bioactive phenolic compound, after an organic intervention diet
    Name: Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Quifer-Rada, Paola; Marhuenda-Muñoz, María; Rinaldi de Alvarenga, Jose Fernando; Tresserra-Rimbau, Anna; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Vol.: 8 No.: 9
    DOI: 10.3390/antiox8090340
  • Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Mediterranean sofrito home-cooking technique enhances polyphenol content in tomato sauce
    Name: Rinaldi de Alvarenga, José Fernando; Quifer-Rada, Paola; Westrin, Victoria; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Torrado-Prat, Xavier; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Start page: 6535 End page: 6545 Vol.: 99 No.: 14
    DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.9934 ISSN or title: 0022-5142
  • Molecules, Using extra virgin olive oil to cook vegetables enhances polyphenol and carotenoid extractability
    Name: Rinaldi de Alvarenga, José Fernando; Quifer-Rada, Paola; Juliano, Fernanda Francetto; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Illan, Montserrat; Torrado-Prat, Xavier; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa Maria Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Vol.: 24 No.: 8
    DOI: 10.3390/molecules24081555
  • Nutrients, Acute effect of a single dose of tomato sofrito on plasmatic inflammatory biomarkers in healthy men
    Name: Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Martínez-Huélamo, Miriam; De Alvarenga, Jose Fernando Rinaldi; Quifer-Rada, Paola; Vallverdú-Queralt, Anna; Pérez-Fernández, Silvia; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Vol.: 11 No.: 4
    DOI: 10.3390/nu11040851
  • Nutrients, Changing to a low-polyphenol diet alters vascular biomarkers in healthy men after only two weeks
    Name: Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Quifer-Rada, Paola; de Alvarenga, José Fernando Rinaldi; Pérez-Fernández, Silvia; Tresserra-Rimbau, Anna; Lamuela-Raventos, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2018
    Vol.: 10 No.: 11
    DOI: 10.3390/nu10111766
  • Food Research International, Home cooking and ingredient synergism improve lycopene isomer production in Sofrito
    Name: Rinaldi de Alvarenga, José Fernando; Tran, Camilla; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Martinez-Huélamo, Miriam; Illan, Montserrat; Lamuela-Raventos, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2017
    Start page: 851 End page: 861 Vol.: 99
    DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2017.01.009 ISSN or title: 0963-9969
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Development of an advanced HPLC–MS/MS method for the determination of carotenoids and fat-soluble vitamins in human plasma
    Name: Hrvolová, Barbora; Martínez-Huélamo, Miriam; Colmán-Martínez, Mariel; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa Maria; Kalina, Jiří Role: Autor Publishing date: 2016
    Vol.: 17 No.: 10
    DOI: 10.3390/ijms17101719 ISSN or title: 1661-6596

Subjects taught

Course 2026-2027 - Period: 01/09/2026 - 31/08/2027
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Sciences
    • - Clinical Trials in Biomedicine: from Research to Clinical Practice
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - External Laboratory Practices
    • - Integrated Biomedicine I
    • - Introduction to Biomedicine
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Biology of Caregiving
Course 2025-2026 - Period: 01/09/2025 - 31/08/2026
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Sciences
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Nutrition
    • - Integrated Biomedicine I
    • - Clinical Trials in Biomedicine: from Research to Clinical Practice
    • - External Laboratory Practices
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Biology of Caregiving
Course 2024-2025 - Period: 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2025
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Sciences
    • - Work Placement
    • - Cellular and Molecular Pathology
    • - Nutrition
    • - Integrated Biomedicine I
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Techniques for Biomedical Analysis II
Course 2023-2024 - Period: 01/09/2023 - 31/08/2024
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Sciences
    • - Work Placement
    • - Cellular and Molecular Pathology
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Techniques for Biomedical Analysis II
    • - Integrated Biomedicine I

Academic training

PhD in Food and Nutrition, UNIVERSITAT OF BARCELONA
Master's Degree in Biomedical Knowledge Management and Clinical Research, UNIVERSIDAD OF EXTREMADURA
Master Scientific Departments of the Pharmaceutical Industry, UNIVERSITAT OF BARCELONA
Graduated in Biology, UNIVERSIDAD OF EXTREMADURA
Degree in Biology, UNIVERSIDAD OF EXTREMADURA

Professional experience

June 2023–Currently: Clinical Trial and Project Management in Food & Nutrition area – IDIBAPS, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona (Postdoc contract)
• Management of clinical trials
• Clinical trial design and execution
• Project Management
• Research
• Redaction projects
• Sampling
• Organization
• Teaching
• Tutoring of a PhD, as well as projects from master’s and bachelor’s degree
March 2022–Currently: Associate Professor – University of Barcelona Teaching in master’s degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Nutrition, Chronic Diseases and Healthy Ageing)
February 2023–Currently: Senior Scientific Advisor - Caring Collective. Collaboration as scientific advisor in a program based on initiatives/services of education, research and consultancy in Science of Nutrition, Wellbeing & Health Aging. Doing tasks related to management support, project management, education, research & innovation and content creation.
March 2023–Currently: Senior Medical Marketing Consultant – Et al pharma. Medical Affairs, Medical Writing, Medical Education, Strategy interpretation.
February 2022–February 2023: Medical Affairs Department (Medical Advisor / MSL), Amgen Medical Affairs, Medical Plan, Medical Education, Scientific Communication, Digital Project Management, Medical writing.
November 2020–February 2022: Postdoctoral Research Contract – Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBEROBN)
December 2019–November 2020: Postdoctoral Research Contract – University of Barcelona
October 2015–October 2019: Predoctoral Research Contract, Trainee teaching staff grant (FPU) – University of Barcelona

Articles

  • Food and Function, Resting-state brain connectivity following extra virgin olive oil intake in healthy adults
    Name: Gutiérrez-Romero, Rocío M.; Donat-Vargas, Carolina; Muñoz-Moreno, Emma; Hinojosa-Moscoso, Alejandro; Galkina, Polina; Arancibia-Riveros, Camila; Domínguez-López, Inés; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Pérez, Maria; Vallverdú-Queralt, Anna; Casas, Rosa; Estruch, Ramón; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2026
    Start page: 3477 End page: 3483 Vol.: 17 No.: 8
    DOI: 10.1039/d5fo05016b ISSN or title: 2042-6496
  • Antioxidants, Unveiling the Impact of Peanut Consumption on Telomere Length in Young and Healthy Individuals
    Name: Torres-Oteros, Daniel; Parilli-Moser, Isabella; Laveriano Santos, Emily P.; Becerra-Tomás, Nerea; Sanz-Lamora, Héctor; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Haro, Diego; Marrero, Pedro F.; Lamuela-Raventos, Rosa M.; Relat, Joana; Canudas, Silvia Role: Autor Publishing date: 2025
    Vol.: 14 No.: 4
    DOI: 10.3390/antiox14040467
  • Journal of functional foods, Consumption of peanut products enhances the production of microbial phenolic metabolites related with memory and stress response
    Name: Parilli-Moser, Isabella; López-Solís, Ricardo; Domínguez-López, Inés; Vallverdú-Queralt, Anna; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2023
    Vol.: 108
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jff.2023.105746 ISSN or title: 1756-4646
  • Antioxidants, Urinary Phenolic Metabolites Associated with Peanut Consumption May Have a Beneficial Impact on Vascular Health Biomarkers
    Name: Parilli-Moser, Isabella; Domínguez-López, Inés; Vallverdú-Queralt, Anna; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2023
    Vol.: 12 No.: 3
    DOI: 10.3390/antiox12030698
  • Antioxidants, Effect of Crushing Peanuts on Fatty Acid and Phenolic Bioaccessibility
    Name: Parilli-Moser, Isabella; Domínguez-López, Inés; Arancibia-Riveros, Camila; Marhuenda-Muñoz, María; Vallverdú-Queralt, Anna; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2022
    Vol.: 11 No.: 2
    DOI: 10.3390/antiox11020423
  • Clinical nutrition, Consumption of peanut products improves memory and stress response in healthy adults from the ARISTOTLE study
    Name: Parilli-Moser, Isabella; Domínguez-López, Inés; Trius-Soler, Marta; Castellví, Magda; Bosch, Beatriz; Castro-Barquero, Sara; Estruch, Ramón; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2021
    Start page: 5556 End page: 5567 Vol.: 40 No.: 11
    DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.09.020 ISSN or title: 0261-5614
  • Food Research International, Cuisinomics
    Name: Rinaldi de Alvarenga, José Fernando; Quifer-Rada, Paola; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Illan, Montserrat; Torrado-Prat, Xavier; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2020
    Vol.: 138
    DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2020.109787 ISSN or title: 0963-9969
  • Antioxidants, Increase of 4-hydroxybenzoic, a bioactive phenolic compound, after an organic intervention diet
    Name: Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Quifer-Rada, Paola; Marhuenda-Muñoz, María; Rinaldi de Alvarenga, Jose Fernando; Tresserra-Rimbau, Anna; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Vol.: 8 No.: 9
    DOI: 10.3390/antiox8090340
  • Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Mediterranean sofrito home-cooking technique enhances polyphenol content in tomato sauce
    Name: Rinaldi de Alvarenga, José Fernando; Quifer-Rada, Paola; Westrin, Victoria; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Torrado-Prat, Xavier; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Start page: 6535 End page: 6545 Vol.: 99 No.: 14
    DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.9934 ISSN or title: 0022-5142
  • Molecules, Using extra virgin olive oil to cook vegetables enhances polyphenol and carotenoid extractability
    Name: Rinaldi de Alvarenga, José Fernando; Quifer-Rada, Paola; Juliano, Fernanda Francetto; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Illan, Montserrat; Torrado-Prat, Xavier; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa Maria Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Vol.: 24 No.: 8
    DOI: 10.3390/molecules24081555
  • Nutrients, Acute effect of a single dose of tomato sofrito on plasmatic inflammatory biomarkers in healthy men
    Name: Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Martínez-Huélamo, Miriam; De Alvarenga, Jose Fernando Rinaldi; Quifer-Rada, Paola; Vallverdú-Queralt, Anna; Pérez-Fernández, Silvia; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Vol.: 11 No.: 4
    DOI: 10.3390/nu11040851
  • Nutrients, Changing to a low-polyphenol diet alters vascular biomarkers in healthy men after only two weeks
    Name: Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Quifer-Rada, Paola; de Alvarenga, José Fernando Rinaldi; Pérez-Fernández, Silvia; Tresserra-Rimbau, Anna; Lamuela-Raventos, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2018
    Vol.: 10 No.: 11
    DOI: 10.3390/nu10111766
  • Food Research International, Home cooking and ingredient synergism improve lycopene isomer production in Sofrito
    Name: Rinaldi de Alvarenga, José Fernando; Tran, Camilla; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Martinez-Huélamo, Miriam; Illan, Montserrat; Lamuela-Raventos, Rosa M. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2017
    Start page: 851 End page: 861 Vol.: 99
    DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2017.01.009 ISSN or title: 0963-9969
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Development of an advanced HPLC–MS/MS method for the determination of carotenoids and fat-soluble vitamins in human plasma
    Name: Hrvolová, Barbora; Martínez-Huélamo, Miriam; Colmán-Martínez, Mariel; Hurtado-Barroso, Sara; Lamuela-Raventós, Rosa Maria; Kalina, Jiří Role: Autor Publishing date: 2016
    Vol.: 17 No.: 10
    DOI: 10.3390/ijms17101719 ISSN or title: 1661-6596
Course 2026-2027 - Period: 01/09/2026 - 31/08/2027
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Sciences
    • - Clinical Trials in Biomedicine: from Research to Clinical Practice
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - External Laboratory Practices
    • - Integrated Biomedicine I
    • - Introduction to Biomedicine
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Biology of Caregiving
Course 2025-2026 - Period: 01/09/2025 - 31/08/2026
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Sciences
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Nutrition
    • - Integrated Biomedicine I
    • - Clinical Trials in Biomedicine: from Research to Clinical Practice
    • - External Laboratory Practices
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Biology of Caregiving
Course 2024-2025 - Period: 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2025
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Sciences
    • - Work Placement
    • - Cellular and Molecular Pathology
    • - Nutrition
    • - Integrated Biomedicine I
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Techniques for Biomedical Analysis II
Course 2023-2024 - Period: 01/09/2023 - 31/08/2024
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Sciences
    • - Work Placement
    • - Cellular and Molecular Pathology
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Techniques for Biomedical Analysis II
    • - Integrated Biomedicine I