The Mapfre Foundation finances a project led by a researcher from the ibs.GRANADA on the exposure of children to bisphenol A and its relationship with obesity
The researcher at the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada (ibs.GRANADA), the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INYTA) and the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Granada Ana Rivas-Velasco has received a grant of 40.000 euros from the Mapfre Foundation, year-long, for the development of a research project on the exposure of children to bisphenol A and its relationship with obesity, belonging to the field of Health promotion.
Carmen Hernando de Larramendi, vice president of the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation and the daughter of whom these research grants are named, has presented the nominations of the 10 best research projects selected from all over Spain and abroad, for a total amount of 315.000 euros.
The project in which professors from the departments of Nutrition and Bromatology, Analytical Chemistry, Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Physiology of the UGR participate, aims to deepen the study of the exposure of school-age children to bisphenols, a group of disruptors endocrine agents whose main route of exposure is food and to study the role of this exposure in childhood obesity. Likewise, the project will analyze the role of the microbiota in its obesogenic effect.
Researcher Ana Rivas Velasco highlighted the importance of obtaining research funding and said, "It is undoubtedly a great joy to be awarded this financial support to continue advancing one of our main lines of research with great projection and impact on the health of today's society: the role of endocrine disruptors as obesogens and the involvement of the microbiota.
