Marta Cascante, professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biomedicine at the Faculty of Biology and member of the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (IBUB), has been named an honorary fellow of the Metabolomics Society, an organization created in 2004 that has more than 1,000 members in over 40 countries. This award, the highest distinction granted by the association, has been given each year since 2012 to two experts, and on this occasion honours a member of the Spain’s research community for the first time.
Warwich Rich Dunn, Metabolomics Society’s president, and Professor Marta Cascante.
Marta Cascante receives the award “for developing pioneering methods for the dynamic analysis of metabolic flux, their application in identifying new metabolic drug targets, and for the subtyping of diseases.” As well as “demonstrating an exceptional commitment to training young scientists in metabolomics.” As part of the award, the researcher will deliver the plenary lecture at the 2026 conference of the Metabolomics Society.
Cascante is an ICREA Academia researcher and leads the UB’s Integrative Systems Biology, Metabolomics and Cancer Research Group. She is also group leader in the CIBER Area for Liver and Digestive Diseases (CIBEREHD), and has developed various lines of research on cancer therapy, metabolomics and fluxomics, and the control and regulation of metabolic and signal transduction pathways. She has been a pioneer in developing tools for the analysis of the control and regulation of biochemical systems for biomedical or biotechnological purposes, contributing to the development of tumour metabolomics to identify new therapeutic targets.
Author of more than 300 scientific articles, she is a founding member of the Spanish Metabolomics Society (SESMet) and the European Association of Systems Medicine (EASyM). She has received several awards, including the Narcís Monturiol Medal for scientific and technological merit, awarded by the Government of Catalonia, and the Antoni Caparrós Prize, awarded by the Board of Trustees of the University of Barcelona, in recognition of her career in knowledge transfer between academia and industry.
This year, the Metabolomics Society has also awarded Professor Jessica Lasky-Su from Harvard Medical School (United States).
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