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]

References

1. Barbas Arriba, Maria del Coral (1989). Preparacion, puesta a punto y aplicaciones analiticas de electrodos selectivos de membrana heterogenea de Ag(I) y de Cu(II) (Thesis) (in Spanish). Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Servicio de Reprografia.
2. "Coral Barbas, catedrática de Química Analítica de la Universidad CEU San Pablo, Doctora Honoris Causa por la Medical University Bialystok (Polonia) – elEconomista.es". www.eleconomista.es (in Spanish). December 17, 2018. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
3. "CEMBIO CEU. Centre of Metabolomics and Bioanalysis". cembio.uspceu.es. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
4. "Coral Barbas". The Analytical Scientist. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
5. Barbas, Coral; Castro, Mario; Bonet, Bartolomé; Viana, Marta; Herrera, Emilio (1997-08-22). "Simultaneous determination of vitamins A and E in rat tissues by high-performance liquid chromatography". Journal of Chromatography A. 778 (1): 415–420. doi:10.1016/S0021-9673(97)00416-0. hdl:10637/1017. ISSN 0021-9673. PMID 9299749.
6. 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.
7. Barbas, Coral; Garcı́a, Antonia; Saavedra, Luis; Castro, Mario (2000-02-18). "Optimization and validation of a method for the determination of caffeine, 8-chlorotheophylline and diphenhydramine by isocratic high-performance liquid chromatography: Stress test for stability evaluation". Journal of Chromatography A. 870 (1): 97–103. doi:10.1016/S0021-9673(99)01186-3. ISSN 0021-9673. PMID 10722066.
8. Galli, Verónica; Barbas, Coral (2004-04-02). "Capillary electrophoresis for the analysis of short-chain organic acids in coffee". Journal of Chromatography A. 1032 (1): 299–304. doi:10.1016/j.chroma.2003.09.028. hdl:10637/1056. ISSN 0021-9673. PMID 15065808.
9. Marı́n, A.; Garcı́a, E.; Garcı́a, A.; Barbas, C. (2002-07-20). "Validation of a HPLC quantification of acetaminophen, phenylephrine and chlorpheniramine in pharmaceutical formulations: capsules and sachets". Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 29 (4): 701–714. doi:10.1016/S0731-7085(02)00124-3. ISSN 0731-7085. PMID 12093499.
10. Saavedra, L; Garcı́a, A; Barbas, C (2000-06-09). "Development and validation of a capillary electrophoresis method for direct measurement of isocitric, citric, tartaric and malic acids as adulteration markers in orange juice". Journal of Chromatography A. 881 (1): 395–401. doi:10.1016/S0021-9673(00)00258-2. ISSN 0021-9673. PMID 10905722.
11. Gómez-Coronado, Diego J. M.; Ibañez, Elena; Rupérez, F. Javier; Barbas, Coral (2004-10-29). "Tocopherol measurement in edible products of vegetable origin". Journal of Chromatography A. 1054 (1): 227–233. doi:10.1016/j.chroma.2004.08.072. hdl:10637/685. ISSN 0021-9673. PMID 15553148.
12. Piszcz, Jaroslaw; Armitage, Emily G.; Ferrarini, Alessia; Rupérez, Francisco J.; Kulczynska, Agnieszka; Bolkun, Lukasz; Kloczko, Janusz; Kretowski, Adam; Urbanowicz, Alina; Ciborowski, Michal; Barbas, Coral (2016-03-14). "To treat or not to treat: metabolomics reveals biomarkers for treatment indication in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia patients". Oncotarget. 7 (16): 22324–22338. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.8078. ISSN 1949-2553. PMC 5008363. PMID 26988915.
13. Gonzalez-Riano, Carolina; Saiz, Jorge; Barbas, Coral; Bergareche, Alberto; Huerta, José Mª; Ardanaz, Eva; Konjevod, Marcela; Mondragon, Elisabet; Erro, M. E.; Chirlaque, M. Dolores; Abilleira, Eunate (2021). "Prognostic biomarkers of Parkinson's disease in the Spanish EPIC cohort: a multiplatform metabolomics approach". npj Parkinson's Disease. 7 (1): 73. doi:10.1038/s41531-021-00216-4. ISSN 2373-8057. PMC 8368017. PMID 34400650.
14. Dudzik, Danuta; Barbas-Bernardos, Cecilia; García, Antonia; Barbas, Coral (2018-01-05). "Quality assurance procedures for mass spectrometry untargeted metabolomics. a review". Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 147: 149–173. doi:10.1016/j.jpba.2017.07.044. ISSN 0731-7085. PMID 28823764. S2CID 25964252.
15. González-Riano, Carolina; Dudzik, Danuta; Garcia, Antonia; Gil-de-la-Fuente, Alberto; Gradillas, Ana; Godzien, Joanna; López-Gonzálvez, Ángeles; Rey-Stolle, Fernanda; Rojo, David; Ruperez, Francisco J.; Saiz, Jorge (2020-01-07). "Recent Developments along the Analytical Process for Metabolomics Workflows". Analytical Chemistry. 92 (1): 203–226. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.9b04553. ISSN 0003-2700. PMID 31625723. S2CID 204773658.
16. "Coral Barbas, galardonada con el premio Endocrinología Pediátrica y Crecimiento 2017". Acta Sanitaria (in Spanish). 2017-05-12. Archived from the original on 2022-02-17. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
17. "International Award". Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Retrieved 2022-02-17.

External links

• Coral Barbas publications indexed by Google Scholar