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Pablo García-Pavía, Nerea Mora Ayestarán y Fernando Domínguez
Research
3 Sep 2025

Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), together with cardiologists from Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro and the Spanish cardiovascular disease research network (CIBERCV), report that the new discovery makes it possible to identify high-risk patients early and refer them sooner to specialized heart failure units

CNIC-led REBOOT clinical trial challenges 40-year-old standard of care for heart attack patients
Research
30 Aug 2025

REBOOT trial, coordinated by the CNIC, shows that treatment with beta-blockers provides no benefit to patients who experience an uncomplicated heart attack that leaves the contractile function of the heart intact.

ESC Congress 2025 CNIC
About the CNIC
26 Aug 2025

The European Society of Cardiology is holding its annual congress in Madrid from August 29 to September 1

Pascual Sánchez-Juan
La investigadora Claudia Monaco
Research
1 Aug 2025

Dr. Claudia Monaco, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, UK

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Research
16 Jul 2025

A new study led by the CNIC has identified imidazole propionate (ImP), a metabolite produced by gut bacteria, as a driver of atherosclerosis— as a driver of atherosclerosis, the disease behind most heart attacks and strokes

Marina Rosa Moreno, Fátima Sánchez Cabo, José Luis Cabrera, José Antonio Enríquez, María Concepción Jiménez, Pablo Hernansanz Agustín  Lucía Sánchez-García.
Research
2 Jul 2025

CNIC researchers have uncovered the evolutionary logic of the OxPhos system—the cell’s “engine”—and developed a tool to detect mutations that cause mitochondrial disease

José Antonio Enríquez, Almudena Ramiro  y Silvia Priori.
About the CNIC
17 Jun 2025

The projects—led by Drs Almudena Ramiro, José Antonio Enríquez, and Silvia Priori—will receive a total of €5.25 million for CNIC research over the next 5 years

Sarai Martínez Cano, Marcos Femenía Muiña, Elena Hernández, Vanessa Núñez, Manuel Rodrigo Tapias, Miguel Galán Burgos, Iñaki Robles,  Alberto Benguria, David Sancho y Almudena Ramiro
Research
2 Jun 2025

A team from the CNIC has discovered the key role of conventional type 1 dendritic cells (cDC1) in atherosclerosis and has developed an experimental therapy with immunosuppressive nanoparticles that slows the progression of the disease in animal models.

Joseph Hill
Research
31 May 2025

Dr. Joseph Hill holds the James T. Willerson, M.D., Chair in Cardiovascular Disease and the Frank M. Ryburn Jr. Chair in Cardiac Research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center