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    Pablo García-Pavía, Nerea Mora Ayestarán y Fernando Domínguez
    Research
    3 Sep 2025
    European Heart Journal: Genes linked to sudden cardiac death increase the risk of heart failure in patients with genetic dilated cardiomyopathy

    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
    Valentín Fuster
    About the CNIC
    31 Aug 2025
    Dr. Valentín Fuster delivers the World Heart Federation's inaugural lecture at the European Cardiology Congress in Madrid

    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
    ESC Congress 2025
    About the CNIC
    30 Aug 2025
    EHJ: New study finds that, after a heart attack, women have worse prognosis when treated with beta-blockers

    The REBOOT study was presented during the European Society of Cardiology Congress (ESC Congress 2025) in Madrid
    David del Río-Aledo, Rubén Mota, Fátima Sánchez-Cabo, Carlos Torroja, Daniel Morales-Cano, Raúl Izquierdo-Serrano, Paula Nogales, Jesús Mateo, Leticia González-Cintado, Laura Carramolino y Ana Dopazo.
    Research
    12 Aug 2025
    Science Translational Medicine: A hospital imaging technique used in cancer care improves the monitoring and treatment of atherosclerosis

    El 18FDG-PET is a type of positron emission tomography that measures how much energy the body’s cells consume.
    La investigadora Claudia Monaco
    Research
    1 Aug 2025
    Claudia Monaco: “We think we know a lot about cardiovascular disease, but in reality, we don't”

    Dr. Claudia Monaco, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, UK
    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
    Cell Genomics: CNIC scientists reveal how the cellular energy system evolved—and how this knowledge could improve the diagnosis of rare genetic diseases

    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
    Dr. Eduardo Marbán
    Research
    18 Jun 2025
    Eduardo Marbán: "We have designed a cellular product called Deramiocel, and until now, we have had positive results in at least two clinical trials"
    De izquierda a derecha y de arriba hacia abajo: Maria Rosaria Pricolo, Natalia Vicente, Verónica Labrador, Olga Giménez, Manuel Gavilán, Jon Sicilia, Jesús Vázquez, Elías Herrero, Roberto Silva, Jorge Alegre y Diana Velázquez.
    Research
    5 Jun 2025
    Nature Biomedical Engineering: A new method for studying mechanical proteins and their involvement in muscular disorders

    This new tool will advance the development of treatments for congenital muscle diseases and cardiomyopathies. 
    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
    Circulation Research: CNIC scientists uncover how the immune response drives atherosclerosis—the root cause of heart attacks and strokes

    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
    Joseph Hill: "There are new obesity drugs, very famous ones, and they work quite well, but they’re not risk-free"

    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