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    About the CNIC
    23 Apr 2018
    A CNIC-coordinated international project is set to receive €1 million in funding over the next 3 years

    The project is coordinated by Dr. José Antonio Enríquez and will receive funding worth $1350000 (€1.100.062) over the next 3 years
    De izda. a dcha.: José Antonio Enriquez, María del Mar Muñoz, Fátima Sánchez-Cabo, Luis Jesús Jiménez-Borreguero, Rocío Nieto-Arellano, Andrés González-Guerra, Carlos Torroja, José María Castellanos, y Concepción Jiménez.
    Research
    3 Apr 2018
    Science Translational Medicine: CNIC scientists identify a promising target for the treatment of heart failure

    The study is published in Science Translational Medicine and was conducted by researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC)
    About the CNIC
    21 Mar 2018
    OTRI or how to capitalize the investment of talent and resources of the academic centers

    The OTRIs are intermediaries in the science-technology-enterprise system, and their mission is to boost relations among the agents of the system
    Dr. Valentín Fuster
    About the CNIC
    19 Jan 2018
    2017, a fundamental year for the CNIC

    The results of our research will allow an economic return of the investment in terms of reduction in the waiting lists, better use of the equipment or a decrease in the costs of hospitalization
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    Research
    14 Nov 2017
    JACC: Five health indicators are enough to predict cardiovascular risk in healthy people

    The Fuster-BEWAT score evaluates five health indicators: blood pressure, physical activity, body-mass index (BMI), fruit and vegetable intake, and smoking status
    Los participantes de la CNIC Conference
    About the CNIC
    13 Nov 2017
    The 2017 CNIC Conference on atrial fibrillation combined a global perspective from the genetic basis to the new advances in clinical treatment

    The CNIC Conference entitled “Atrial Fibrillation: from Mechanisms to Population Science”, joined together 126 world experts in the field of atrial fibrillation in very different areas of expertise
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    About the CNIC
    6 Nov 2017
    The Grand Cross of Alfonso X the Wise granted to Dr. Valentín Fuster

    This award rewards individuals and legal entities and both Spanish and foreign entities that have distinguished themselves by the merits acquired in the fields of education, science, culture, teaching and research or that have rendered outstanding services in any of these fields in Spain or internationally
    A 3-dimensional magnetic resonance image form a patient who has undergone an acute myocardial infarction. The heart is visible in the center of the image. Healthy (non-infarcted) cardiac muscle is indicated by asterisks, whereas arrows point to the infarcted region. MRI can reveal the extent of the area affected by inflammation after a heart attack (the yellow infarcted region marked by arrows). Serial MRI studies reveal thta this inflammatory reaction appears immediately after the infarction but then rapid
    Research
    22 Aug 2017
    Circulation: Dogma overturned: new studies into inflammation in the infarcted heart could lead to changes in therapy

    The study overturns the dogma that infarction is followed by progressive repair of the injured myocardium.
    3D ultrasound of the right carotid artery. An atherosclerotic plaque is visible as a small protrusion (arrow) in the vessel wall of the internal branch of the proximal carotid artery (bottom), close to the bifurcation. In contrast, the surface of the disease-free external branch (top) is smooth (asterisk).
    Research
    24 Jul 2017
    'JACC': 3D visualization of cholesterol plaques improves cardiovascular risk prediction

    CNIC researchers show the value of total atherosclerosis burden for the identification of individuals at risk of cardiovascular disease
    Dr. Fuster participates in the presentation of the report “Global Health and the Future Role of the United States”
    About the CNIC
    17 May 2017
    Dr. Fuster participates in the presentation of the report “Global Health and the Future Role of the United States”

    In September 2016, the General Director of CNIC was appointed co-director of the committee “Global Health and the Future Role of the United States”.