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    15 May 2024
    CNIC Co-Leads REACT, an international precision medicine project to transform cardiovascular prevention

    Globally, cardiovascular diseases due to atherosclerosis – the build-up of plaque in arteries – are the leading cause of death. A new Danish-Spanish research collaboration aims to develop methods to detect atherosclerosis at earlier ages and encourage prevention. Denmark’s Novo Nordisk Foundation has granted up to EUR 23 million to cover the first 2.5 years of the REACT initiative. The initiative is expected to run for 8 years in total
    About the CNIC
    17 Nov 2023
    Dr. Francisco Sánchez-Madrid awarded the 2023 Robert Koch Prize

    This work is of fundamental importance for understanding the immune system and its reactions
    Andrés Hidalgo
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    6 Jul 2022
    Dr. Andrés Hidalgo elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization – EMBO

    Through this lifelong honour, new EMBO Members and Associate Members are recognized for their outstanding achievements in the life sciences
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    17 Jun 2022
    Hosting offers for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022
    An optical section from a ventral view of a mouse embryo at embryonic day E8.0. The section is overlain with a cast of the three-dimensional shape of the forming heart (red) and the incipient circulatory system (purple).
    Research
    17 May 2022
    Nature Cardiovascular Research: A CNIC team creates a dynamic 3D atlas of the formation of the embryonic heart

    The 3D atlas has allowed the scientists to identify the beginning of left–right asymmetry in the heart
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    14 Jun 2021
    Hosting offers for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 at the CNIC
    Irene Fernández-Nueda, Carlos Cerón y Marta Cortés-Canteli
    About the CNIC
    15 Dec 2020
    CNIC scientists coordinate a European project to develop a biomarker for the early identification of the vascular component in Alzheimer disease

    The BioClotAD project, coordinated by CNIC scientist Dr Marta Cortés Canteli, has been selected by the EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND)
    Research
    22 Oct 2020
    Cell: The unexpected repair function of neutrophils

    CNIC scientists have discovered previously unsuspected actions of the immune system that help to maintain organ health
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    12 Dec 2019
    Jacob Fog Bentzon receives 2 M euros from the European Research Council for a ground-breaking research project on atherosclerosis

    Professor Jacob Fog Bentzon from Aarhus University and the CNIC  receives 2 M euros from the European Research Council for a ground-breaking research project on atherosclerosis – one of the most frequent causes of death in the world
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    18 Sep 2019
    A CNIC researcher awarded two projects of the European Diabetes Society

    Dra. Ivana Nikolić studies the role of T cells in the development of diseases associated with obesity