Program – PREDIMED Omics Symposium 2026 & 6th International Congress on Olive Oils and Health

11:00– 12:00

REGISTRATION

12:00 – 12:45 OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE SYMPOSIUM

José Miguel Herrero Velasco

Director General of Food at the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

Francisco Javier Lozano Blanco

Deputy for Promotion and Tourism, Provincial Council of Jaén.

Nicolás Ruiz Reyes

Rector, University of Jaén

Jaime Lillo

Executive Director, International Olive Council (IOC)

Juan B. Barroso

University of Jaén; Director, Institute for Olive and Olive Oil Research

Frank Hu

Harvard University; Chair, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Miguel A. Martínez-González

University of Navarra

12:45 – 14:00

WELCOME COCKTAIL

14:00 – 15:30 SESSION 1: MEDITERRANEAN DIET AND OLIVE OIL EFFECTS ON HEALTH

Chair introduction

Maria Puy Portillo

University of the Basque Country; Director, CIBEROBN.

14:00 – 14:25

Cardiometabolic prevention and the Mediterranean diet: state of the art

Lina Badimon

Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center (CSIC-ICCC) of Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona.

14:25 – 14:50

Unveiling the Pathways Behind a Successful Cardiovascular Clinical Trial: The CORDIOPREV Study

Javier Delgado-Lista

Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Córdoba, and Specialist in Internal Medicine, Reina Sofía University Hospital, Córdoba.

14:50 – 15:15

Mediterranean Diet, Multi-Omics and Chronic Disease Prevention in Precision Medicine (virtual)

Daniel Wang

Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

15:15 – 15:30

Q & A

15:30 – 15:45

COFFEE BREAK

15:30 – 16:30 Poster Session and Flash Oral Presentations: Nutritional Epidemiology, Omics

15:50

Coffee and tea consumption, coffee-related metabolites, and breast cancer risk in US Women

Andrea Romanos Nanclares

Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA

15:55

Sex and dyslipidemia jointly modify the association between provegetarian diet adherence and telomere length in participants from the SUN cohort

Aida Escudero Urrea

Universidad de Navarra, Spain

16:00

Urolithin Metabotypes, Cardiovascular Risk, and Response to Mediterranean Diet Intervention

Inés Domínguez López

German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

16:05

Adherence to Mediterranean Diet and one-carbon metabolism on breast cancer risk and mortality within the EPIC cohort: a nutrigenetic perspective

José María Gálvez Navas

Escuela Salud Pública de Andalucía, Spain

16:10

A literature-informed plasma metabolomic signature predicts mortality across several independent cohorts with reproducible performance

Gonzalo Fernández Duval

Universidad de Navarra, Spain

16:15

Exposomic and metabolomic avenues for studying epidemiological cohorts: the EXPOMET breast cancer study

Delia Castilla Fernández

Universidad de Granada, Spain

16:30 – 18:30 SESSION 2: NUTRITION AND CARDIOMETABOLIC HEALTH: MECHANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS (“OMICS”)

16:30 – 16:55

Metabolomics approaches to discover biomarkers of food intake and signatures of cardiometabolic disease

Clary Clish

Senior Director of Metabolomics and an Institute Scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

16:55 – 17:20

Nut Consumption and Cardiometabolic Diseases: New Insights from Multi-omics Analyses

Qi Sun

Associate Professor, Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

17:20 – 17:45

Mediterranean Diet and Metabolomics in PREDIMED and PREDIMED-Plus: main findings

Cristina Razquin

Senior Researcher, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Navarra

17:45 – 18:10

New avenues in nutrition research applying metabolomics

Cristina Andrés Lacueva

Full Professor of Nutrition & Food Science, University of Barcelona and CIBERFES-ISCIII

18:10 – 18:30

Q & A

8:00 – 11:00

Visit to an Oil Mill and Olive Oil tasting

By OLEICOLA JAÉN (Baeza)

11:00 – 12:00 Poster Session and Flash Oral Presentations: Olive oils

11:15

Extra-Virgin Olive Oil and Outcome-Wide Cardiovascular Risk: Evidence from the PREDIMED Trial

Javier Pérez de Rojas

Universidad de Navarra, Spain

11:20

Advanced Aroma Fingerprinting of Moroccan Extra Virgin Olive Oils Using Flash Gas Chromatography E-nose and Machine Learning for Authentication Assessment

Idriss Ouled Bouallala

Mohammed V University, Morocco

11:25

Diet quality in the progression from healthy status to morbidity, multimorbidity and mortality

Aitana Vázquez Fernández

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

11:30

Olive oil preference over seed-based fats and the risk of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: The SUN Cohort

Luiz Antonio Alves de Menezes Junior

Universidad de Navarra, Spain

11:35

Mediterranean Diet Adherence and Long-Term Mortality: Evidence of a Legacy Effect in the PREDIMED Trial

Javier Pérez de Rojas

Universidad de Navarra, Spain

11:40

Cardiovascular effects of nitro-fatty acids from olive oil in non-alcoholic fatty liver dissease

Beatriz Sánchez Calvo

Universidad de la República, Uruguay

12:00 – 13:00

Show Cooking / Lunch

Juanjo Mesa – Radis Restaurant (1 Michelin Star and 1 Repsol Sun Award)

13:00 – 14:15 SESSION 3 (PART 1): PROSPECTIVE COHORTS IN NUTRITION AND RISK OF CHRONIC DISEASES

13:00 – 13:25

Wine in the mediterranean diet and the missing large trial

Miguel Álvarez de Mon

Specialist in Psychiatry and Psychology, Infanta Leonor Hospital, Madrid

13:25 – 13:50

Precision Nutrition and Healthy Ageing: Bridging population insights and Personal Health

Frank B. Hu

Chair, Department of Nutrition; Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

13:50 – 14:15

The role of diet in cancer prevention and survivorship

Heather Eliassen

Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

14:15 – 14:30

COFFEE BREAK

14:30 – 15:20 – SESSION 3 (PART 2): PROSPECTIVE COHORTS IN NUTRITION AND RISK OF CHRONIC DISEASES

14:30 – 14:50

Molecular signatures and risk of cancer and other chronic diseases

Pietro Ferrari

Head, Division of Nutrition and Metabolism, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

14:50 – 15:10

Diet and Lifestyle for Preventing Chronic Diseases in the PREDIMED-Plus Trial

Jordi Salas-Salvadó

Full Professor of Nutrition and Director of the Human Nutrition Unit at the University Rovira i Virgili (URV)

15:10 – 15:20

Q & A

15:20 – 15:35

COFFEE BREAK

15:35 – 16:45 – SESSION 4: UPDATING THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE ON THE EFFECTS OF OLIVE OIL ON HEALTH

15:35 – 15:45

The International Olive Council: a vision for the future

Abderraouf Laajimi.

Deputy executive director, International Olive Council (IOC)

15:45 – 16:00

The bioactive ingredients of extra-virgin olive oil

Francesco Visioli

Professor of Human Nutrition, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova (Italy), and Associate Researcher, IMDEA-Food (Madrid, Spain).

16:00 – 16:15

Olive oil in cardiometabolic prevention at both sides of the Atlantic

Marta Guasch-Ferré

Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen

16:15 – 16:30

Phenolic compounds, urinary metabolites of the Mediterranean diet and cardiovascular disease

Rosa M. Lamuela-Raventós

Director, Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety (INSA-UB)

16:30 – 16:45

Q & A

16:45– 17:00

PRESENTATION OF THE HELLENIC CENTER OF EXCELLENCE ON MEDITERRANEAN DIET

The Hellenic Center for Excellence in Health & Wellness: Experiential/ Participatory Conferences in Greece Create Ambassadors for Life

Stefanos Kales

Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Professor & Director of Occupational Medicine Residency at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Division Chief, OEM, Cambridge Health Alliance and President of Hellenic Center for Excellence.

16:45– 17:45– ROUND TABLE: MEDITERRANEAN DIET AND LIFESTYLE TO ADDRESS THE OBESITY PANDEMIC IN THE ERA OF GLP-1 AGONISTS

Meir J. Stampfer

Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Mediterranean diet, body weight and cognitive health

Mary Yannakoulia

Professor of Nutrition and Eating Behaviour, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University

Sebastian Czernichow

Professor of Nutrition, University of Paris Cité, and Head of the Nutrition Department, European Georges-Pompidou Hospital, Paris

Ramón Estruch

Senior Consultant, Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, and Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona

17:45-18:00

CLOSING CEREMONY AND POSTER AWARD PRESENTATION

19:15 – 21:00

GUIDED TOUR OF THE MONUMENTS OF JAÉN

21:15

GALA DINNER

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