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    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
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    12 Dec 2024
    CNIC participates in an international Leducq Foundation project investigating the connection between the placenta and the heart during embryonic development

    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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    5 Dec 2024
    Susana Carmona: "My primary interest is to ask questions, try to answer them and communicate what I learn”

    Susana Carmona directs the Neuromaternal research group at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid

    El Dr. Valentín Fuster recibe el Premio de la Sociedad Internacional de Aterosclerosis
    About the CNIC
    5 Dec 2024
    Valentin Fuster, wins prestigious award from the International Atherosclerosis Society

    The International Atherosclerosis Society recognizes the contributions to the understanding and treatment of atherosclerosis by the director of the National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) and president of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart
    Carola Vinuesa
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    25 Nov 2024
    Carola Vinuesa: "Science offers many opportunities to reinvent yourself, to travel, to work in different environments, and to meet new people"

    Carola García de Vinuesa is a senior group leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London and the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra.

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    About the CNIC
    23 Oct 2024
    JACARDI General Assembly: More than 200 experts from 21 European countries unite to improve care for cardiovascular disease and diabetes

    The National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), and the Health Research Institute of Hospital 12 de Octubre (i+12), representing SERMAS, are actively participating in JACARDI through different pilot projects
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    2 Oct 2024
    European Researchers’ Night 2024 at CNIC
    Cardiovascular risk factors (particularly metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, and diabetes) alter coronary microvascular function and increase the risk of atherosclerotic disease, which itself leads to changes in the coronary microcirculation.
    Research
    19 Sep 2024
    JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging: Cardiometabolic risk factors in apparently healthy individuals are linked to altered coronary microcirculation

    A study from CNIC reveals how risk factors and subclinical atherosclerosis affect heart microcirculation in asymptomatic middle-aged individuals. The research, published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, highlights the importance of assessing the heart vessels' ability to regulate blood flow and predict future cardiovascular risk
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    9 Sep 2024
    Circulation: A new mechanism of early-onset atherosclerosis in a premature aging syndrome

    The new study, published in the journal Circulation, opens a new avenue of research into treatments for the atherosclerosis associated with progeria
    About the CNIC
    30 Aug 2024
    Héctor Bueno receives the ESC President's Awards 2024 at the Congress of the European Society of Cardiology
    CNIC researchers
    Research
    30 Aug 2024
    Nature Medicine: CNIC scientists discover a new cardiovascular risk factor and identify a drug able to reduce its effects

    Two studies carried out at the CNIC provide key information about a newly identified cardiovascular risk factor, clonal hematopoiesis, and its treatment with the ancient medication colchicine