Cardiovascular illnesses are still the most important cause of mortality in developed countries, including Spain, despite the major advances in the diagnosis and treatment made in the past 20 years. In addition, the costs generated in economic, social and human terms remain very high. To address this situation, The Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs, through the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), decided to set up the CNIC in order to group together the best cardiovascular research in Spain and provide it with a modern infrastructure and the necessary funding to achieve excellent biomedical research.

The project is led by Dr. Valentín Fuster as Scientific President and Dr. Sánchez Madrid as Director of Basic Research.

The CNIC is proud to organize the

The event will take place on 27 and 28 June 2008, in the CNIC Auditorium, Melchor Fernández Almagro 3, Madrid, España.

Objective

This will be the first CNIC Cardiovascular Symposium, and will serve to introduce the Center to the Scientific Community by bringing together world leaders in each of the CNIC´s research areas. These six areas have been defined as those that are set to have the greatest impact on cardiovascular medicine over the next decade:

• Session I: Vascular Biology and Inflammation
• Session II: Cardiovascular Developmental Biology
• Session III: Regenerative Cardiology
• Session IV: Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Population Genetics
• Session V: Atherothrombosis and Cardiovascular Imaging
Session VI: Translational Cardiovascular Research of Novel Technologies and Therapeutics