University of Connecticut, USA;Dr. Fernandez’ research focuses on the effects of dietary strategies and drug treatment to prevent cardiovascular disease. She has employed different dietary regimes in her research, including the Mediterranean diet, carbohydrate restricted diets, inclusion of antioxidants from grapes, and more importantly she has established the lack of association between eggs and heart disease risk factors. She has authored 251 peer-review papers, 14 book chapters, and 235 scientific abstracts.

University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;Lluis is author of more than 800 publications, a total of 500 referenced articles with an Impact Factor over 2300 and a "H Index" of 58 (Scopus), 56 (SCI) and 85 (Google Schoolar). He has edited 75 books on topics in his field and produced 300 chapters and editorials, prologues and presentations. His book “Nutrición y Salud Pública” (1995 & 2006) is a well recognized reference in the field. He has a leading role both nationally and internationally in the field of public health nutrition as well as the Mediterranean Diet.

University of Barcelona, Spain;Francisco J Pérez-Cano was born and educated in Barcelona. He studied Pharmacy (1999) at the University of Barcelona (UB) where he also completed a master’s degree. In 1996, he joined the “Autoimmunity, Immunonutrition and Tolerance Research Group” in the Department of Physiology. He moved to the Center for Immunology at the University of California-Irvine in 2003–2004 to complete his training and defended his PhD on “Mucosal Immunity Acquisition in Early Life” in 2004. After that, he was hired as associate professor (2005), Lecturer (2007), and finally as a Permanent Associate Professor (2011) in the Department of Physiology of the University of Barcelona. He is currently teaching different subjects on the Pharmacy, Food Science and Technology, Human Nutrition, and several other master’s courses. He completed post-doctoral training (2009) at the University of Reading (UK) and has participated in more than 50 research projects with public funding as well as industry collaboration. Francisco has more than 120 peer-reviewed manuscripts, a book, and several book chapters in the field. Francisco’s research interests include Immunonutrition in early life. He has focused on the impact of cocoa and its components, immunity and microbiota in health conditions, and disease by using models of acute/chronic inflammation and allergy. In addition, he has studied the impact of several components present in breast milk (whey proteins, lactoferrin, CLA, oligosaccharides, probiotic bacteria, etc.) at the preclinical level on the developing immune function of infants but also under viral infections. His current line of research is focused on the effect of prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics and its combinations on the neonatal immune system and the impact of maternal diet on immunity programming. Dr. Pérez-Cano is the director of the Research Institute for Nutrition and Safety-UB (INSA-UB), Ambassador of the Spanish Society of Immunology (SEI), and Section Chief Editor of “Nutritional Immunology”.