Marta Correia holds her PhD in Biomedicine at Universidade do Porto, and Innovation Therapeutique in Université Paris-Sud. She holds a Master in Clinical Nutrition, 2006, at Universidade de Lisboa, faculty of Medicine. Her research is mainly focussed on unravelling the effects of nutrients and bioactive compounds in cancer and inflammation models. She has been involved in clinical studies aiming to assess nutritional risk, assess nutritional status and cancer cachexia in gastrointestinal cancer patients and surgical patients. One of the bioactive compounds of interest is the effect of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on the tumoral process andinflammation in gastric cancer model focused on pathogenic bacteria growth of Helicobacter pylori. More recently she has been working on the crosstalk between whole plant-based diets, microbiota and its implication inthe gut inflammation and cancer. She currently holds an ongoing scientific employment contract awarded in the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (ESB-UCP/CBQF) and is an Assistant Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.