Selected projects 2018

New clues to preventing cardiovascular accidents

Almudena Rodríguez Ramiro

Researching new risk factors of atherosclerosis

Valentín Fuster

The two faces of inflammation: preventing vascular injury without compromising defenses

Andrés Hidalgo Alonso

The metabolic changes that make possible the formation of the heart promise new regenerative therapies

Ofelia María Martínez Estrada

A new therapy for heart failure

Joaquim Adelino Correia Ferreira Leite Moreira

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

The language of immune defenses will contribute to the development of new vaccines

Francisco Sánchez-Madrid

Towards a universal vaccine to end chronic infectious diseases

Andreas Meyerhans

The liver could reveal malaria's achilles' heal

Maria M. Mota

New strategies to combat Zika

David Andreu Martínez

How to avoid and improve the treatment of lung complications derived from allergic reactions

Agostinho Albérico Rodrigues de Carvalho

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

How the human brain creates and retrieves memories

Josep Dalmau Obrador

Cellular therapy to reverse blindness

Maria Pia Cosma

The great unknown in neuroscience is how we perceive the world

Leopoldo Petreanu

Mice to stop Parkinson’s disease

Miquel Vila Bover

Intestinal bacteria decide for the brain what to eat

Carlos Vidal Ribeiro

Understanding the neural bases of depression to develop new therapies

Rodrigo A. Cunha

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

A new treatment to slow down the progress of ALS

Rubèn López Vales

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundación Luzón

Metastasis cell fate mapping

Roger Gomis Cabré

Predicting and detecting prostate cancer metastasis before it is clinically evident

Arkaitz Carracedo

Combating the most common form of leukemia through an in-depth understanding of diverse cases of the disease

Elías Campo

The fight against the most aggressive melanoma

Fátima Gebauer Hernández

Rejuvenating aged organs and tissues

Pura Muñoz-Cánoves

Precision medicine against myotonic dystrophy

Ruben Artero-Allepuz

How cells store genetic information

Colin Adrain

Fighting obesity to treat nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Rui Eduardo Mota Castro

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia