His research interests focus on applying proteomics, metabolomics and bioinformatics technologies for the study of pathological mechanisms of different diseases. He received his M.D. from Caldas University in Colombia in 2001. Prior to joined Temple University in 2006, Dr. Barrero was a research Fellow at the Fundacion Instituto de Inmmunologia de Colombia, were he applied proteomics for the development of novel malaria and tuberculosis vaccines. Dr. Barrero complete his Post-Doctoral training in Dr. Salim Merali laboratory in the department of Biochemistry at Temple University, were he acquired state-of-the-art knowledge in proteomics and metabolomics by using mass spectrometry. Later in 2009 he become an Associate Scientist and recently was appointed as a Research Assistant Professor at the Temple University School of Pharmacy in June 2014.