Olga Martínez Augustin (español)

Dr. Olga Martínez Augustin, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Granada. She is Director of the Research Group CTS-235 "Unsaturated fats and nucleotides. Therapeutic implications”.

She is also a principal investigator in several national projects at and in different contracts with private companies.

Her line of research is focused on the importance of intestinal barrier function in intestinal inflammation and obesity and its modulation by nutritional and nutraceutical agents. In the last years, their main interests has been centred in the study of non-microbiota-dependent interactions of fiber with intestinal epithelium, and the characterization of alkaline phosphatase, calprotectin and glucocorticoids receptor functions in intestinal inflammation.