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Valentín Fuster
About the CNIC
31 Aug 2025

From August 29 to September 1, Madrid hosts the European Society of Cardiology Congress (ESC Congress) and the World Heart Federation World Congress of Cardiology

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.

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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

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.

David Sancho, Ignacio Heras-Murillo y Stefanie Wculek.
Research
14 Apr 2025

A study led by the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), in collaboration with the Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Barcelona (IRB Barcelona), has identified the most effective subtype of dendritic cell for generating immune memory in response to cancer

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About the CNIC
8 Apr 2025

The system provides specialised answers to biomedical questions, ensuring data privacy by operating exclusively within the CNIC

Anagha Jagannathan, Carlos Real Jiménez, Laura Cádiz, Sofía Trigo Anca, Anabel Díaz-Guerra Priego, Miguel Fernández Tocino, Carlos Galán Arriola, Borja Ibáñez, Agustín Clemente Moragón, Sandra Gomez, Ana Devesa, Juan Rene Delgado Cornejo, Danielle Medina-Hernandez, Warren Alexander Skoza, Lucía Pilar López Palomar, Nico Hoffmann, Carlos Caballero Henares and Ángela Pollán García.
Research
4 Feb 2025

The study, published in JACC: CardioOncology, shows that administration of the SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin to pigs receiving anthracyclines preserves mitochondrial function, improves myocardial energetics, and prevents degenerative changes in heart structure

Macarena de Andrés Laguillo, Stefano Gambera, Sofía Sánchez Muñoz, Rui Benedito, Irene García González, Mariya Lytvyn Legin, Lourdes García Ortega, Sandra Ruiz García, Susana Ferreira da Rocha, Aroa García Cabero, Luis Diago Domingo.
Research
12 Dec 2024

iFlpMosaics is a new technology presented in Nature Methods that allows the modification and study of gene function in mouse models, advancing research on diseases caused by somatic mutations, such as cancer and vascular malformations.

From left to right: D. MacGrogan, B. Flores-Garza, T. González-Costa, V. Sebastián-Serrano,  J.L. de la Pompa, L. Méndez-Peralta, A. Pau-Navalón, A. Galicia-Martín, J. Santos-Cantador,  C. Relaño-Ruperez, M. Siguero-Álvarez
About the CNIC
12 Dec 2024

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

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