Dr. Ros has received numerous research grants from public and private agencies. He has published more than 275 original papers, over 120 reviews papers, 25 editorials, and 85 scientific textbook chapters. He has been a speaker at many scientific conferences and professor at many postgraduate courses in the fields of nutrition, lipid metabolism, atherosclerosis, and cardiac prevention. He has a 25-year experience in clinical trials with antiatherosclerotic diets, foods, and drugs. Actual research interests include nutrition in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, age-related cognitive decline and dementia, with especial interest in the Mediterranean diet and walnuts; plant sterols; blood membrane fatty acids; genetic dyslipidemias; cardiovascular risk assessment; and vascular imaging techniques, especially carotid ultrasound. He also led the nutritional intervention of the landmark PREDIMED trial of Mediterranean diet for primary cardiovascular prevention.