Montserrat Cofan

Montserrat Cofan obtained her undergraduate degree in Pharmacy in 1982 from the University of Navarra (Spain). She received her PhD at the University of Barcelona in physiopathological mechanisms of myopathy and cardiomyopathy by acute and chronic ethanol exposure. From 1998 to 2000, she was a Research Fellowship at the Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology Department-Alcohol Research Centre, Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA, USA), where she focused on the analysis of integrated signaling responses in liver and other tissues and on the adaptive or maladaptive modification of these responses by ethanol exposure. She is currently a Research Associate at Endocrinology & Nutrition Department, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona. Her main research interests include the study of interactions of Mediterranean diet and metabolism on nutritional phenotypes in the context of chronic diseases: cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and cognitive impairment in older people, mainly by conducting a characterization of the metabolome. Montse visited the Wheelock Laboratory in 2016 to investigate the effect of Mediterranean diet upon circulating lipid mediator levels.