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Doctor Vicente Andres Garcia

Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid (Spain)

Dr. Andrés obtained his PhD from University of Barcelona (1990). This was followed by postdoctoral training at Children's Hospital, Harvard University (1991-1994) and St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tufts University (1994-1995), where he was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine (1995). He returned to Spain in 1999 to establish his research group at the Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC), where he worked as a Full Professor and later on was appointed Head of the Department of Pathology & Molecular & Cellular Therapy (2003-2009). In September 2009, he transferred his research group to Madrid to lead the laboratory of Molecular and Genetic Cardiovascular Pathophysiology in the CNIC, where he is Director of the Department of Basic Research since 2015. By combining animal and human studies, his translational research provides a framework for understanding how genes and environmental factors dicytate aging and cardiovascular disease.

Presentations Articles

How to protect the heart against multiple comorbidities in ageing

Event: Frontiers in CardioVascular Biomedicine 2022

Topic: Ischaemia, Infarction, Cardioprotection

Session: Novel concepts in cardiac protection in the ageing heart

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Preventing cardiovascular aging: lessons from progeria.

Event: ESC Congress 2020

Topic: Basic Science, Other

Session: Cardiovascular Ageing: from Risk Factors to Therapeutic Targets

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