Collaborator Dra. Maria Elena Maldonado Celis
Collaborator
Full Professor – Senior Researcher at the School of Nutrition and Dietetics. Associated institution: School of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Antioquia. Undergraduate and graduate academic qualifications: Biologist, Biochemist, Master's in Basic Biomedical Sciences, and PhD in Life and Health Sciences. Current position: Full Professor – Senior Researcher at the School of Nutrition and Dietetics. Associated institution: School of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Antioquia. Area of expertise: Her line of research is Natural Products for Cancer Chemoprevention and Experimental Nutrition, which uses in vitro and in vivo models and clinical trials in the context of certain types of cancer to identify and evaluate the chemopreventive properties and mechanisms of action of bioactive compounds or foods of plant origin. As part of her professional experience, she has published research and review articles in international and national scientific journals, as well as book chapters in collaboration with the international publishing house Wiley. She has also advised technological development projects for food companies in Medellín. Regarding her academic activities, she has advised undergraduate research projects in Biology for young researchers in nutrition and dietetics; and master's and doctoral theses in Biology, Pharmaceutical and Food Sciences, Food Sciences and Human Nutrition, and Basic Biomedical Sciences at the University of Antioquia. She has also advised several food companies in Antioquia. She teaches Nutritional Biochemistry at the School of Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Antioquia (UdeA), and has offered elective courses to graduate students in Biology and Pharmaceutical and Food Sciences at the same university, focusing on nutrition and cancer, antioxidants, mechanisms of cell death, and fruits. She was coordinator of the PhD program in Human Nutrition and Food from 2021 to 2022, and head of the Center for Research in Food and Nutrition from 2021 to 2023. She is currently coordinator of the Research Group on the Impact of Food Components on Health at the University of Antioquia.
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