The Autonomous University of Nuevo León appoints Doctor Honoris Causa to the ibs.GRANADA researcher Ángel Gil Hernández
Professor and researcher Ángel Gil Hernández, researcher of the Biochemistry of Nutrition group. Therapeutic Implications of ibs.GRANADA and professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Granada, has been appointed Doctor Honoris Causa by the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL, Mexico), whose investiture has just been held.
The Honorable University Council of the Mexican institution approved the request of the Faculty of Public Health and Nutrition of the UANL to grant the academic distinction of Doctor Honoris Causa to Ángel Gil Hernández, for "the important and outstanding contributions to the science of food and nutrition for humanity”, emphasizes the University of the State of Nuevo León.
UANL is a higher education institution with 88 years of history, considered the third largest public university in Mexico and the one with the largest educational offer in the northeast of the country. Its main coverage is the state of Nuevo León and neighboring states. Among its headquarters, six university campuses stand out: University City, Health Sciences, Mederos, Agricultural Sciences, Sabinas Hidalgo and Linares, which make up a total of 26 faculties, the Institute of Social Research and other educational entities. It currently offers 338 educational programs at the middle-higher, higher and postgraduate levels; These programs serve more than 215.000 students, under the guidance of nearly 7.000 teachers.
About Angel Gil
Ángel Gil Hernández was born in Granada in 1951. In 1973 he obtained a degree in Biology and in 1978 a doctorate in Biological Sciences from the University of Granada. Since 1973 he has been a professor at the UGR and a visiting professor at the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology of the University of Chile and the University of Tucumán. He is currently a professor emeritus at the University of Granada and professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He served as managing director of the UGR Foundation-Company and belonged to the Nutritional Biochemistry Research Group: Therapeutic Implications of ibs.GRANADA, accredited as a group of excellence by the Junta de Andalucía BioNit CTS-461, which he directed since 1996 until 2019. He has been recognized five times for his research by the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity of the Ministry of Education. Likewise, he has been president of the Ibero-American Nutrition Foundation (FINUT) that he founded from 2011 to 2021.
His main contributions to human nutrition worldwide have been on the evaluation of the nucleotide functions of human milk, metabolism of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in infancy, nutritional evaluation of bioactive food components, and the isolation, identification and description of the mechanisms of action of various prebiotic microorganisms; and also on biochemical, molecular and genetic factors involved in obesity and the early development of metabolic syndrome in obese children. Likewise, he has developed various products for use in Clinical Nutrition for the prevention and treatment of various diseases.
He has directed international and national research projects, has 752 publications, of which 28 are books, 179 are book chapters and 545 are indexed scientific articles, in addition to 17 patents related to food. He has directed 60 doctoral theses. As a researcher, he is included in the "Ranking of the World Scientists: World's Top 2% Scientists" of Standford University, which identifies the most influential researchers worldwide.
His book "Nutrition Treatise, 3rd Edition" (5 volumes), from 2017, is an international reference for teaching nutrition and food. He has received 42 national and international personal or collective awards. He has been a founding member of academies and scientific societies of reference and has participated in the organization of international conferences in the field of food and nutrition.
