HONORARY PRESIDENT
Minister of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness

PRESIDENT
Carmen Vela Olmo
Secretary of State for Research, Development and
Innovation

VICEPRESIDENT
Jesús Fernández Crespo
General Director of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III

José Javier Castrodeza Sanz
General Secretary for Health and Consumer Affairs

Cristina Ysasi-Isasmendi Pemán
Director of National Affairs of the Office of the
President of the Government

Margarita Blázquez Herranz
Deputy Director General of Networks and
Cooperative Research Centers, Instituto de Salud
Carlos III

Enrique Ruiz Escudero
Health Counselor of the Madrid Region

Carlos Macaya Miguel
President of the Spanish Heart Foundation

* All data refers to 31/12/2017

PRESIDENT
Thomas F. Lüscher
Institute of Physiology of the University Zurich
University Zurich, Switzerland

MEMBERS
Margaret Buckingham
Department of Developmental Biology
Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Peter Carmeliet
Center for Transgene Technology and Gene Therapy
Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology,
Leuven, Belgium

Elisabetta Dejana
Department of Biosciences
University of Milan (IFOM-IEO Campus), Italy

Javier Díez
Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA)
University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Stefanie Dimmeler
Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration
Centre for Molecular Medicine, Frankfurt, Germany

Roger Hajjar
Cardiovascular Research Center
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA

Gerd Heusch
Institute of Pathophysiology, Center of Internal
Medicine
University of Essen Medical School, Essen, Germany

Louis Ignarro
David Geffen School of Medicine
UCLA, USA

Carlos López Otín
Biochemistry Department, School of Medicine
University of Oviedo, Spain

Karin R. Sipido
Division of Experimental Cardiology
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Karl T. Weber
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA

Derek M. Yellon
University College London (UCL)
London, UK