Marta Guasch-Ferre

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Biography

Dr. Guasch-Ferre is an Associate Professor at the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She also holds a position as Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She holds a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology. During her doctoral training, she evaluated the role of key components of the Mediterranean diet, nuts and olive oil on cardiovascular disease and mortality in individuals at high cardiovascular risk from the primary CVD prevention trial, the PREDIMED Study.

Currently, her group focuses on investigating the role of dietary and lifestyle factors in cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes with the goal of incorporating high-throughput –omics techniques into traditional epidemiological analysis to gain insights into underlying mechanisms. One of the major research focuses is to study the interplay between diet and lifestyle, metabolomics, and cardiometabolic diseases by identifying metabolite profiles and networks associated with cardiometabolic diseases and how diet and lifestyle may modulate these associations. Another central research focus is nutritional epidemiology. Her group evaluates the association between several dietary factors, dietary patterns, and their relationship with cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and mortality in the context of large prospective cohort studies and clinical trials in the US and Europe. Finally, by leveraging large cohort studies and clinical trials with dietary data and metabolomics, we aim to advance in the field of precision nutrition by improving objective dietary biomarkers through the integration of -omics data and evaluating their association with cardiovascular diseases.

She is currently the PI of an NIH-funded project: 'Circulating metabolites, lifestyle, and mortality'. She is also an investigator in other American and European projects in the field of nutrition, metabolomics, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases.

Education and Training

• BS, Human Nutrition and Dietetics
  Rovira i Virgili University
• MSc, Master in Nutrition and Metabolism
  University of Barcelona
• PhD, Nutrition and Metabolism
  Rovira i Virgili University
• Postdoc, Nutritional Epidemiology
  Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Awards and Honors

• Sandra A. Daugherty Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Disease, 2021
  American Heart Association
• Early Career Travel Award, 2018
  American Heart Association
• Finalist Jeremiah and Rose Stamler Research Award for New Investigators, 2017
  American Heart Association
• Travel Award, 2016
  Postdoctoral Association Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Publications

• Planetary Health Diet Index and risk of total and cause-specific mortality in three prospective cohorts.

  Bui LP, Pham TT, Wang F, Chai B, Sun Q, Hu FB, Lee KH, Guasch-Ferre M, Willett WC. Am J Clin Nutr 2024 07

• Impact of individual and environmental factors on dietary or lifestyle interventions to prevent type 2 diabetes development: a systematic review.

  Bodhini D, Morton RW, Santhakumar V, Nakabuye M, Pomares-Millan H, Clemmensen C, Fitzpatrick SL, Guasch-Ferre M, Pankow JS, Ried-Larsen M, Franks PW, Tobias DK, Merino J, Mohan V, Loos RJF. Commun Med (Lond) 2023 Oct 05

• Metabolomic profiles of chronic distress are associated with cardiovascular disease risk and inflammation-related risk factors.

  Balasubramanian R, Shutta KH, Guasch-Ferre M, Huang T, Jha SC, Zhu Y, Shadyab AH, Manson JE, Corella D, Fitó M, Hu FB, Rexrode KM, Clish CB, Hankinson SE, Kubzansky LD. Brain Behav Immun 2023 11

• Estimation of life's essential 8 score with incomplete data of individual metrics.

  Zheng Y, Huang T, Guasch-Ferre M, Hart J, Laden F, Chavarro J, Rimm E, Coull B, Hu H. Front Cardiovasc Med 2025

• Role of sociodemographic, clinical, behavioral, and molecular factors in precision prevention of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review.

  Bodhini D, Morton RW, Santhakumar V, Nakabuye M, Pomares-Millan H, Clemmensen C, Fitzpatrick SL, Guasch-Ferre M, Pankow JS, Ried-Larsen M, Franks PW, Tobias DK, Merino J, Mohan V, Loos RJF. medRxiv 2023 May 03