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Three projects from the CNIC have received European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant funding from the European Commission. ANTI-ATHERO: Age-Associated Antigens in Atherosclerosis Immunity and Immunotherapy, led by Dr. Almudena Ramiro, and MINTRAF: Cell-Cell Communication by Mitochondrial Intercellular Traffic, led by Dr. José Antonio Enríquez, will each receive ...

The new project, ‘The Placenta in Maternal and Fetal Cardiovascular Health and Disease’, aims to understand how the placenta influences cardiovascular health in mothers and their children, promising improvements in the prevention and treatment of related diseases ...

Three CNIC (Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research) researchers have been awarded funding by the AECC (the Spanish Association Against Cancer) in its 2024 call for projects aimed to boost immunotherapy research and the training of young scientists. David Sancho received an AECC 2024 General Projects award of 295,500 euros. His project focuses on the development of a new strategy to strengthen antitumour immune response based on stimulation of the interaction between cells of the immune system ...

The CNIC (Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research) has been awarded two Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Fellowships within the Horizon Europe Programme. The funding will enable the development of ground-breaking research in immunology and cardiovascular health, with a significant impact on our understanding of immune and ...

Spain’s Ministry for Digital Transformation and of the Civil Service and the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities presented the programme ‘Generación D: Construyendo la Generación IA’ (Generation D: Building the AI Generation) with a 120 million euro investment from Red.es. The profile of the programme’s beneficiaries is post-doctoral (43%), predoctoral ...

Researchers from the Computational Systems Biomedicine group at the Spanish National Cardiovascular Research Centre (CNIC) are developing CARMINA, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant designed to support cardiovascular research. It is a system based on language models and information retrieval that provides specialised answers to biomedical ...

Fundación La Caixa has awarded 5 of its 100 new doctoral and post-doctoral grants to young researchers of the CNIC (Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research) for them to conduct their projects at the research centre. With its INPhINIT doctoral and Junior Leader post-doctoral grants ...

A new study conducted at the CNIC and CNIO, led by Guadalupe Sabio and Cintia Folgueira, has uncovered a mechanism through which the body burns ...