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    Anagha Jagannathan, Carlos Real Jiménez, Laura Cádiz, Sofía Trigo Anca, Anabel Díaz-Guerra Priego, Miguel Fernández Tocino, Carlos Galán Arriola, Borja Ibáñez, Agustín Clemente Moragón, Sandra Gomez, Ana Devesa, Juan Rene Delgado Cornejo, Danielle Medina-Hernandez, Warren Alexander Skoza, Lucía Pilar López Palomar, Nico Hoffmann, Carlos Caballero Henares and Ángela Pollán García.
    Research
    4 Feb 2025
    JACC CardioOncology: CNIC scientists design an effective treatment strategy to prevent heart injury caused by a class of anticancer drugs

    The study, published in JACC: CardioOncology, shows that administration of the SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin to pigs receiving anthracyclines preserves mitochondrial function, improves myocardial energetics, and prevents degenerative changes in heart structure
    Rebecca F. Gottesman
    Research
    4 Jun 2024
    Rebecca F. Gottesman: “Telling someone their risk of dementia would drop if they treated their high blood pressure would impact them more than the possibility of a heart attack or stroke"

    Stroke Branch Chief at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
    Dra. Cintia Folgueira Cobos GALARDONADA con el Premio Rising Star 2024
    About the CNIC
    28 May 2024
    Dr Cintia Folgueira Cobos receives the Rising Star Award 2024


    About the CNIC
    8 Mar 2024
    International Women's Day 2024 @ CNIC
    Neuregulin-1 induces changes in actin filaments during ventricular maturation. Actinin staining of a mouse embryo heart reveals a striated actin pattern corresponding to mature trabecular sarcomeres (green). The magnified view shows the differences in luminosity that distinguish the more organized actin filaments of the trabecular myocardium from the less organized compact layer
    Research
    10 Nov 2023
    CIRCULATION RESEARCH: CNIC scientists identify the crucial role of the protein neuregulin-1 in heart development

    Neuregulin-1 (Nrg1) plays an essential role in the transformation of the heart from its delicate primordial structure into the powerful beating mature organ 

    About the CNIC
    3 Oct 2023
    CNIC gets on the move with the Carrera del Corazón fun run
    la Dra. Mercedes Ricote y la Dra. Ana Paredes
    About the CNIC
    29 Sep 2023
    Researcher Ana Paredes wins the International Birnstiel Award 2023

    The Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) researcher Dr Ana Paredes has won the International Birnstiel Award 2023
    Dr. García Pavía
    Research
    21 May 2023
    NEJM: A Spanish team presents the first pharmacological treatment able to improve cardiac function in stiff-heart syndrome

    The team led by Dr. Pablo García-Pavía, based at the CNIC and Hospital Puerta de Hierro, has published the first study of a drug able to remove amyloid deposits from the heart

    La figura muestra imágenes mediante resonancia magnética cardíaca (A y B) y tomografía computarizada (C y D) de un corazón en diástole (A y C) y sístole (B y D) para el cálculo de la función de ambos ventrículos. VD: Ventrículo derecho; VI: Ventrículo izquierdo.
    Research
    12 Dec 2022
    European Journal of Heart Failure: A promising drug treatment for patients with pulmonary hypertension associated with heart disease

    The results of the SPHERE-HF study are published in the European Journal of Heart Failure. SPHERE-HF is a multicenter academic clinical trial led by investigators at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) and Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
    About the CNIC
    8 Mar 2022
    Muestra cardióloga Inés García Lunar explica en el informativo de RTVE los esfuerzos del CNIC por evitar el sesgo de género en los estudios que se llevan a cabo en el centro.