Coral Barbas

María del Coral Barbas Arribas (or Arriba) is a professor at the Universidad CEU San Pablo in Madrid, Spain who is known for her research on metabolomics and integration of chemical data.^{[clarification needed]}

Coral Barbas
Alma mater	Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Scientific career
Thesis	Preparación, puesta a punto y aplicaciones analíticas de electrodos selectivos de membrana heterogénea de Ag(I) y de Cu(II) (1989)

Education and career

Barbas has a Ph.D. from Complutense University of Madrid.^[1] From 2005 until 2006 she was a Marie Curie fellow at King's College London.^[2] As of 2022 she is a professor of analytical chemistry at the Universidad CEU San Pablo and is the president of the Madrid section of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry.^[3]

Research

Barbas is known for her research on metabolomics, a field she was first introduced to while she was a Marie Curie fellow.^[4] Her early research centered on the analysis of vitamins^[5][6] and development of chemical methods to analyze compounds such as caffeine.^[7][8] Her subsequent research has developed methods to analyze organic compounds in pharmaceutical drugs^[9] and foods,^[10][11] and defined biomarkers for diseases such as leukemia^[12] and Parkinson's disease.^[13] She is also known for defining quality assurance protocols for metabolomics data analysis^[14] and establishing workflows to analyze metabolomics data.^[15]

Selected publications

• Herrera, E.; Barbas, C. (2001). "Vitamin E: action, metabolism and perspectives". Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry. 57 (1): 43–56. doi:10.1007/BF03179812. hdl:10637/720. ISSN 1138-7548. PMID 11519885. S2CID 7272312.
• Armitage, Emily G.; Barbas, Coral (2014-01-18). "Metabolomics in cancer biomarker discovery: Current trends and future perspectives". Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 87: 1–11. doi:10.1016/j.jpba.2013.08.041. ISSN 0731-7085. PMID 24091079.
• Rupérez, F. J; Martı́n, D; Herrera, E; Barbas, C (2001-11-23). "Chromatographic analysis of α-tocopherol and related compounds in various matrices". Journal of Chromatography A. 935 (1): 45–69. doi:10.1016/S0021-9673(01)01101-3. ISSN 0021-9673. PMID 11762785.
• Garcia, Antonia; Barbas, Coral (2011). Metz, Thomas O. (ed.). Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)-based metabolomics. Methods in Molecular Biology. Vol. 708. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press. pp. 191–204. doi:10.1007/978-1-61737-985-7_11. ISBN 978-1-61737-984-0. PMID 21207291. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
• Mamani-Huanca, Maricruz; Gradillas, Ana; López-Gonzálvez, Ángeles; Barbas, Coral (2020-10-06). "Unraveling the Cyclization of L-Argininosuccinic Acid in Biological Samples: A Study via Mass Spectrometry and NMR Spectroscopy". Analytical Chemistry. 92 (19): 12891–12899. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01420. ISSN 0003-2700. PMID 32822159. S2CID 221236568.

Awards and honors

The Analytical Scientist named Barbas to their 2016 Power List in recognition of her contributions to chemistry.^[4] In 2017, she was honored by Acta Sanitaria for her chemical research linking diabetes and obesity.^[16] In 2018, she received the International Award of the Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences.^[17]