Juan Duarte obtained a doctorate of Pharmacy in 1988 from the University of Granada. Since 2003, he has held the position of Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Granada. He is part of the research group CTS-164 of the Andalusian Government, for which he has been responsible since 2009, and within which he has participated in 16 national and regional research projects, in 9 of which he was the principal investigator. Since 2007, he has also been part of the Heracles Research Network (RETIC) node as principal investigator at the University of Granada, which was assimilated in 2012 by the Cardiovascular Research Network (RIC), and then the CIBER-CV from Carlos III Institute of Health. He has spent periods in research centers at the Complutense University of Madrid and Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg. His research has focused on the study of dietary polyphenols in hypertension and diabetes. Currently, he analyzes the role of microbiota in endothelial dysfunction and the effect of probiotics and drug receptor agonists peroxisome proliferator activated (PPAR) beta in hypertension and systemic lupus erythematosus.