Mireia Urpi-Sarda, PhD

Mireia has a Pharmaceutical degree (2002) and a Food Science and Technology degree (2005) from the University of Barcelona. She holds a Master’s in Pharmaceutical Sciences, specializing in Food Science, and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, with European mention, from the University of Barcelona (2008).

Mireia is working on the bioavailability of polyphenols after the consumption of polyphenol-rich foods (wine and cocoa). She has mainly worked on resveratrol metabolites in urine, plasma and LDL samples nutritional biomarkers of moderate wine consumption, and on the polyphenol metabolism of cocoa and its intestinal microbial effect after cocoa intake. She performed research stays at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) at Clermont-Ferrand/Theix (France), where she worked on the human bioavailability of isoflavones, and also at the University of Perugia (Italy), where she worked on epidemiological studies.

She was a “Sara Borrell” postdoctoral researcher in the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona where she worked in inflammatory markers of atherosclerosis in the context of a pattern of Mediterranean diet for prevention of cardiovascular diseases.

Currently she is a "Ramon y Cajal" investigator in the University of Barcelona, “Biomarkers and Nutritional & Food Metabolomics” research group. Incorporation date: December 2012.