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    About the CNIC
    15 May 2024
    CNIC Co-Leads REACT, an international precision medicine project to transform cardiovascular prevention

    Globally, cardiovascular diseases due to atherosclerosis – the build-up of plaque in arteries – are the leading cause of death. A new Danish-Spanish research collaboration aims to develop methods to detect atherosclerosis at earlier ages and encourage prevention. Denmark’s Novo Nordisk Foundation has granted up to EUR 23 million to cover the first 2.5 years of the REACT initiative. The initiative is expected to run for 8 years in total
    Michael A. Laflamme y David Filgueiras
    Research
    3 May 2024
    Michael A. Laflamme: “Sooner or later we will manage to regenerate the heart”
    Vicente Andrés, director de investigación básica del CNIC; Dr. Valentín Fuster, director general del CNIC; Dra. del Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Dra. Marina Pollán; Alberto Sanz, director gerente del CNIC; el Dr. Borja Ibáñez, director científico y director de investigación clínica del CNIC; D. Agustín González, subdirector general de redes y centros de investigación cooperativa del Instituto de Salud Carlos III., e Icíar Areilza, secretaria general de la Fundación Pro CNIC.
    About the CNIC
    12 Apr 2024
    Visit of the Director of Carlos III Health Institute, Dr Marina Pollán, to CNIC
    María Linarejos Vera, Gema Mondéjar, Amaia Talavera, Patricia Sánchez, Álvaro Macías, Juan Manuel Ruiz, Francisco M. Cruz, Fernando Martínez de Benito, Juan Antonio Bernal y José Jalife
    Research
    11 Apr 2024
    Circulation Research: New mechanism discovered for the life-threatening arrhythmias in Andersen-Tawil syndrome

    CNIC researchers, led by Dr. José Jalife, have made a key discovery about cardiac arrhythmias in Andersen-Tawil syndrome (ATS)
    El Dr. Valentín Fuster con la Dra. Guiomar Mendieta
    About the CNIC
    10 Apr 2024
    The Journal of the American College of Cardiology garlands the CNIC author of a PESA-CNIC-SANTANDER study

    Guiomar Mendieta has been awarded the 2023 William W. Parmley Young Author Achievement Award for a paper published in JACC that is considered to an outstanding contribution in the field of atherosclerosis
    Daniel Ruiz Iruela, subdirector de Programas Internacionales de Investigación y Relaciones Institucionales del ISCIII; Laura Redondo, técnica de transferencia de tecnología del CNIC; Gemma Gómez, gestora de transferencia de conocimiento del CIBER-ISCIII; Rubén Nieto y Martín León, responsable de Transferencia y responsable de Innovación de la Plataforma ITEMAS, respectivamente, y Francisco Javier García, responsable de la Oficina de Transferencia del Conocimiento (OTC) del ISCIII,
    About the CNIC
    25 Mar 2024
    CNIC participates in the Foro Transfiere, the main meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation in the south of Europe
    Ljubica Matic
    Research
    12 Mar 2024
    Ljubica Matic: "Mentors are necessary at every stage of a career”

    Associate Professor in Molecular Medicine and Principal Researcher of the Vascular Surgery Division at Karolinska Institute
    About the CNIC
    18 Jan 2024
    Don´t miss the new videos showcasing research at the CNIC
    Research
    3 Jan 2024
    EMBO Molecular Medicine: Accumulation of the protein versican is the cause of aortic aneurysm in Marfan syndrome

    A team led by scientists at the CNIC and CSIC has found that accumulation of versican in the aortas of Marfan syndrome patients triggers the activation of the nitric oxide pathway through the activation of the the protein AKT

    Juan Pedro Bolaños
    About the CNIC
    2 Jan 2024
    Juan Pedro Bolaños: "We often think we have a God-given understanding of how to do certain things"

    Juan Pedro Bolaños is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Salamanca.