Maria Barranco Altirriba

Welcome to my site! My name is Maria Barranco Altirriba and I hold a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering in Universitat de Barcelona. I am currently doing (almost finishing!) a PhD in the B2SLab, which is part of the Institut de Recerca i Innovació en Salut (IRIS), formerly the Research Center for Biomedical Engineering (CREB) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Barcelona.

My research focuses on metabolomics, including the development of new methods to analyse and interpret metabolomics data, such as the mWISE annotation algorithm. I also apply these tools to better understand diabetes mellitus and its complications. In a recent publication, we identified lipids significantly associated with subclinical carotid atherosclerosis in individuals with type 2 diabetes. Last year, I spent nine months at LipiTUM (Technical University of Munich), where I developed a language model (Smile-to-Bert) to generate embeddings for molecular SMILES. These pre-trained models can be used across datasets to predict molecular properties, an active area of research in drug discovery.

Contact

  • you can email me at maria.barranco you guess what upc.edu

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Publications

2025

1. Lipidomic analysis reveals metabolism alteration associated with subclinical carotid atherosclerosis in type 2 diabetes
M Barranco-Altirriba, J Rossell, N Alonso, RJM Weber, E Ortega, …
Cardiovascular diabetology, Vol. 24 (1), 152, Issue (2025)
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2024

2. Lipidome characterisation and sex-specific differences in type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus
M Barranco-Altirriba, N Alonso, RJM Weber, GR Lloyd, M Hernandez, …
Cardiovascular diabetology, Vol. 23 (1), 109, Issue (2024)
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3. Cerebrospinal fluid homovanillic and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acids in a large pediatric population; establishment of reference intervals and impact of disease and medication
H Rodriguez-Gonzalez, A Ormazabal, M Casado, AY Arias, C Oliva, …
Clinical chemistry, Vol. 70 (12), 1443-1451, Issue (2024)
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4. Smile-to-Bert: A BERT architecture trained for physicochemical properties prediction and SMILES embeddings generation
M Barranco-Altirriba, V Würf, E Manzini, JK Pauling, A Perera-Lluna
bioRxiv, Vol. 2024.10. 31.621293, Issue (2024)
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5. The lipidomic profile is associated with the dietary pattern in subjects with and without diabetes mellitus from a Mediterranean area
MI Rojo-López, M Barranco-Altirriba, J Rossell, M Antentas, …
Nutrients, Vol. 16 (12), 1805, Issue (2024)
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6. Mediterranean diet is a predictor of progression of subclinical atherosclerosis in a mediterranean population: the ILERVAS prospective cohort study
MI Rojo-López, M Bermúdez-López, E Castro, C Farràs, G Torres, …
Nutrients, Vol. 16 (21), 3607, Issue (2024)
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2023

7. Circulating metabolomic and lipidomic changes in subjects with new-onset type 1 diabetes after optimization of glycemic control
J Julve, I Genua, P Quifer-Rada, Ó Yanes, M Barranco-Altirriba, …
Diabetes research and clinical practice, Vol. 197, 110578, Issue (2023)
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2022

8. Advanced lipoprotein profile in individuals with normal and impaired glucose metabolism
C Puig-Jove, E Castelblanco, M Falguera, M Hernandez, B Soldevila, …
Revista Española de Cardiología (English Edition), Vol. 75 (1), 22-30, Issue (2022)
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9. Perfil lipoproteico avanzado en individuos con metabolismo glucémico normal y alterado
C Puig-Jové, E Castelblanco, M Falguera, M Hernández, B Soldevila, …
Revista española de cardiología, Vol. 75 (1), 22-30, Issue (2022)
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2021

10. Circulating CD5L is associated with cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in individuals with chronic kidney disease
E Castelblanco, MR Sarrias, À Betriu, B Soldevila, M Barranco-Altirriba, …
Aging (Albany NY), Vol. 13 (19), 22690, Issue (2021)
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11. mWISE: an algorithm for context-based annotation of liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry features through diffusion in graphs
M Barranco-Altirriba, P Sola-Santos, S Picart-Armada, …
Analytical chemistry, Vol. 93 (31), 10772-10778, Issue (2021)
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2020

12. The circulating fatty acid transporter soluble CD36 is not associated with carotid atherosclerosis in subjects with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus
E Castelblanco, L Sanjurjo, M Barranco-Altirriba, M Falguera, …
Journal of clinical medicine, Vol. 9 (6), 1700, Issue (2020)
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Unknown Year

13. Supporting Information mWISE: an algorithm for context-based annotation of LC-MS features through diffusion in graphs
M Barranco-Altirriba, P Sol
UPC, Vol. , Issue (Unknown)
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14. Guanine and pregnenolone sulfate are associated with incident type 2 diabetes in two independent populations
M Barranco-Altirriba, M Granado-Casas, O Yanes, J Capellades, A Junza, …
Frontiers in Endocrinology, Vol. 16, 170688, Issue (Unknown)
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15. mWISE: an algorithm for context-based annotation of LC-MS features through diffusion in graphs
M Barranco-Altirriba, P Sola-Santos, S Picart-Armada, …
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