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23 Jun 2026

CNIC Researcher Florian Weinberger Awarded ERC Advanced Grant for the project CARDIOSWITCH

CARDIOSWITCH aims to uncover how the mechanical activity of heart muscle cells shapes cardiac biology and to develop new regenerative strategies for congenital heart disease

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11 Jun 2026

CNIC and Fundación AstraZeneca bring together young scientists and European leaders in Madrid to advance the “SAFE HEARTS PLAN”

The meeting forms part of European awareness-raising activities around the European Commission’s new strategy to strengthen prevention, early detection, and management of cardiovascular disease

Left: Hesham Sadek MD, PhD. Right: Ivan Menendez-Montes, PhD

Research

10 Jun 2026

Nature: Cells Have a Secret Power Line: Scientists Discover How the Nucleus Gets Its Own Private Energy Supply

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2 Jun 2026

The SAFE HEARTS PLAN Meeting: Young Scientists Engaging with Europe’s Cardiovascular Health Plan brings European cardiovascular health policies closer to early-career researchers

from left to right: Haruka Toda, Irene García Martín, María Maeve Soto Pérez, Alexia Ramos Gutiérrez, Mirian Nieto Delgado, Demetrio Julián Santiago Castillo, Paola Rocío Riveros Rodríguez, Lucía Pilar López Palomar, Andrés Redondo Rodríguez, Jorge García Quintanilla, Marinela Couselo Seijas, David Filgueiras Rama, and José Jalife.

Research

28 May 2026

Cardiovascular Research: The left and right ventricles differ in their ability to withstand the effects of cardiac arrest

The findings, published in Cardiovascular Research, show that the right ventricle has greater metabolic resilience than the left during cardiac arrest caused by ventricular fibrillation.

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25 May 2026

Researcher Annalaura Mastrangelo receives the 2026 Young Investigator Award in the Basic Science category

Optimal dendritic-cell-based antitumor immunotherapy with cDC1 cells requires active mitochondria. Whereas vaccination with normal cDC1 cells efficiently reduces metastasis in B16-OVA tumors, the antitumor efficacy of these cells is diminished when their mitochondria are damaged.

Research

22 May 2026

Science Immunology: Mitochondria control immune cell activation and the effectiveness of immunotherapy

A CNIC-led study identifies a mitochondrial “checkpoint” that enables dendritic cells to efficiently activate T lymphocytes against viruses and tumors