Strategic objectives

Study of lipid metabolism, especially cholesterol, in physiology and pathology, with the purpose of establishing the biological role of certain lipids, identifying mechanisms and designing strategies with a therapeutic potential.

Research lines

• Actions of cholesterol in cell proliferation.
• Food allergy.
• Effect of drugs with amphiphilic amine nature on lipid homeostasis.
• Alterations in intracellular lipid trafficking.
• Effects of lipid metabolism alteration in male fertility.
• Functionality of HDLs and their alterations.
• Regulation of gene expression in obesity and its relationship with lipid metabolism.
• Lipidomics applied to the study of disease-related metabolic alterations.