Marta Moreno Torres, PhD in Natural Science (Biochemistry) is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Valencia.
In 2012, after acquiring international experience in biochemistry and molecular biology during her master thesis with an internship at the National University of Ireland (Galway, Ireland), she joined the Université de Fribourg (Switzerland) as a PhD student, partially funded by Novartis that awarded her a Medical- Biological Research Fellowship. She was nominated for the Extraordinary Prize for the best thesis at the Faculty of Science (2016).
Thereafter, she joined the Syddansk Universitet (SDU), with the support of the Danish Diabetes Academy that awarded her a competitive 2-year postdoctoral fellowship where she established several highly fruitful collaborations with international groups, participating in research lines that provided her a deep insight in metabolomics and expertise on mass-spectrometry.
In August 2019 she moved a step forward in the translational scope of her research and achieved a competitive contract by the EU-ToxRisk European Project H2020 at the group of Experimental Hepatology and Hepatic Transplant at the Health Research Institute Hospital La Fe (IISLAFE). Her leadership activities as emergent and independent researcher started in July 2020 when she was awarded a Juan de la Cierva Incorporación 2018 fellowship at IISLAFE and continued on 2023, when she was awarded a Ramón y Cajal 2021 contract at University of Valencia.
Her research interest is to help elucidate liver-related clinical problems and improve diagnostic and prognosis tools by combining biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology tools with multi-omics approaches. She has published 25 scientific articles (11 as first and 3 as corresponding author), and she has also supervised 4 bachelor and 4 master theses. She also obtained as Principal Investigator funding at the call “IX. Subvenciones a grupos de investigación emergentes (CIGE)”, and she is working as an editor of a special issue in the Metabolites journal. Recently, she has been accredited with the R3 certificate as Established Researcher by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and awarded with the XIX Premio Científico-Técnico Ciudad de Algemesí. She is evaluator of the Agencia Estatal de Investigación and has participated as an evaluator of the National Science Center Poland. She is also peer-reviewer of several journals.
She currently participates in several research collaborations with national and international researchers, and is involved in lecturing activities at the Faculty of Medicine (UV).