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    Valentín Fuster
    About the CNIC
    25 Feb 2021
    The Association of Cardiovascular Imaging of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC) awards its Gold Medal to Dr Valentín Fuster

    Dr Valentín Fuster, Director of the Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) is to receive the Gold Medal of the Association of Cardiovascular Imaging of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC) for his original and innovative scientific activity in cardiovascular imaging to reach new frontiers in cardiovascular health of the heart and brain.
    3D reconstructions of superior (left) and inferior (right) brain regions, showing regions with lower metabolism associated with the presence of atherosclerotic plaques in the carotid arteries. The color code indicates the magnitude of the observation (yellow, strong association; red, lower association). Gray indicates areas showing no association with carotid plaque presence
    Research
    15 Feb 2021
    JACC: Spanish scientists uncover early links between cardiovascular risk and brain metabolism

    Among the modifiable cardiovascular risk factors showing a close association with reduced brain metabolism, the research team found that the most important is hypertension
    Marta Amorós Pérez, Virginia Zorita, Nuria Matesanz, Marian Zuriaga y José Javier Fuster.
    About the CNIC
    23 Dec 2020
    CNIC to coordinate a European project investigating how cancer therapies promote atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease

    The project will investigate the role of clonal hematopoiesis—the formation of mutated hematopoietic stem-cell clones promoted by anti-cancer therapies—in the development of atherosclerosis and associated cardiovascular disease
    About the CNIC
    10 Dec 2020
    The 'ProtMechanics-Live' project, led by Dr. Jorge Alegre, awarded ERC Consolidator funding in the ERC-2020-COG call

    'ProtMechanics-Live' is based on unique expertise in protein mechanics and engineering, biophysics, biochemistry and cardiovascular biology and will allow to investigate protein mechanics for the first time in its functionally relevant physiological context
    Jesús Vázquez, Almudena Ramiro, José Luis Martín Ventura, Inmaculada Martos Folgado, Cristina Lorenzo y Sonia Mur.
    Research
    2 Dec 2020
    Nature: CNIC scientists identify a new diagnostic and therapeutic target for cardiovascular disease

    Un estudio que se publica en Nature muestra a la proteína mitocondrial ALDH4A1 como un nuevo autoantígeno implicado en los procesos de la aterosclerosis
    Research
    16 Oct 2020
    Nature Reviews Endocrinology: Protein kinases could be the next target in the treatment of diseases associated with obesity

    Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) review the roles of a groups of proteins called stress kinases in metabolism in an article published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology
    Research
    29 Sep 2020
    JACC: CNIC scientists design an algorithm for personalized cardiovascular risk estimation in healthy people

    The study, published in JACC, forms part of the PESA-CNIC-SANTANDER project, led by Dr Valentín Fuster
    About the CNIC
    31 Aug 2020
    The CNIC one of the four Leading Cardiovascular Research Centers in Europe at the 2020 European Congress of Cardiology
    Research
    4 May 2020
    Cardiovascular Research: Spanish scientists discover how the flu virus injures the heart

    The study shows that the replication of flu virus particles infecting the heart blocks the transmission of cardiac electrical impulses
    Dr. Filip Swirski
    About the CNIC
    28 Feb 2020
    "Sleep has been proven to be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease”

    Dr. Filip Swirski is associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (USA) and one of the leading experts on the relationship between sleep and heart disease