Personal profile
Short presentation
My core research lays in the development of biomarkers of food intake as dietary assessment tools, from discovery to implementation, striving to increase precision in nutrition studies. I have a broad experience in metabolomics and in conducting human intervention studies.
Roles within NEXS:
- Member of the Study Board for Food, Nutrition and Physical activity educations
- Co-founder and chair of the network: The Power of Food (KU-Initiative)
Roles outside NEXS:
- Board member of Clinical Metabolomics (CLIME.DK) - nutrition outreach
Current research
Ongoing:
- Shift2Health: prevention of obesity in shift workers, EU Horizon, co-PI Danish arm (https://shift2health.eu/)
- HotFacets: a Danish trial on the effects of moderate alcohol intake, co-PI
- Biomarkers of food intake
Past:
- PREVIEW: prevention of diabetes through lifestyle interventions, EU Horizon, PhD fellow responsible for metabolomics analyses (https://preview.ning.com/)
- FOODBALL: food biomarker alliance - discovery, review, validation strategy for dietary biomarkers (JPI HDHL), affiliated PhD fellow
Teaching
Courses:
- Bioactives Food Components and Health (MSc course): course responsible and main teacher
- Metabolomics (MSc course): course co-respomsible and teacher.
- Tools and Techniques in Nutrition Research: teacher
Supervision:
Supervising PhD, MSc and BSc students within nutrition, metabolomics, biomarkers, diet-microbiome interactions, omics integration.
Education/Academic qualification
MSc Human Nutrition, University of Copenhagen
Aug 2011 → Nov 2013
Award Date: 11 Nov 2013
BSc Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.
Sept 2003 → Jul 2008
Award Date: 11 Jul 2008
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Towards nutrition with precision: unlocking biomarkers as dietary assessment tools
Cuparencu, C., Bulmuş-Tüccar, T., Stanstrup, J., La Barbera, G., Roager, H. M. & Dragsted, L. O., 2024, In: Nature Metabolism. 6, p. 1438–1453Research output: Contribution to journal › Review › peer-review
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Metabolomics-based biomarkers of fermented dairy and red meat intake: a randomized controlled trial in healthy adults
La Barbera, G., Praticò, G., Dragsted, L. O. & Cuparencu, C., 2024, In: Frontiers in Chemistry. 12, 21 p., 1461331.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Combined markers to assess meat intake - human metabolomic studies of discovery and validation
Cuparencu, C., Rinnan, Å. & Dragsted, L. O., 2019, In: Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. 63, 17, 11 p., 1900106.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Identification of urinary biomarkers after consumption of sea buckthorn and strawberry, by untargeted LC-MS metabolomics: a meal study in adult men
Cuparencu, C. S., Andersen, M.-B. S., Gürdeniz, G., Schou, S. S., Mortensen, M. W., Raben, A., Astrup, A. & Dragsted, L. O., 2016, In: Metabolomics. 12, 2, 20 p., 31.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Integration of modern technologies to advance dietary assessment
Cuparencu, C., Diener, C., Wilson, T., Gibbons, S. M. & Lucassen, D. A., 2026, In: Nature Food. 7, p. 17–26Research output: Contribution to journal › Review › peer-review
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Perspective: Diet Item Details: Reporting Checklist for Feeding Studies Measuring the Dietary Metabolome (DID-METAB Checklist): Explanation and Elaboration Report on the Development of the Checklist by the DID-METAB Delphi Working Group
Ferguson, J. J. A., Clarke, E. D., Stanford, J., Gómez-Martín, M., Jakstas, T., Collins, C. E., Delphi Working Group Authors, D.-M. (Member of author collaboration) & Cuparencu, C. (Member of author collaboration), 2025, In: Advances in Nutrition. 16, 5, 23 p., 100420.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Querying stool for dietary information
Dragsted, L. O., Roager, H. M. & Cuparencu, C., 2025, In: Nature Metabolism. 7, p. 450–451Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Strengthening the reporting of diet item details in feeding studies measuring the dietary metabolome: The DID-METAB core outcome set statement
DID-METAB Delphi Working Group Authors, 2025, In: European Journal of Clinical Investigation. 55, 7, 13 p., e70030.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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