Rui Miguel Benedito

Rui Miguel Dos Santos Benedito
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid
Principal Investigator

Mapping the pathogenesis of vascular malformations.

• Mariona Graupera (PL)
  Institut de Recerca contra la Leucèmia Josep Carreras (IJC), Barcelona

• Eulàlia Baselga Torres
  Fundació Privada Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona

• Jaume Mora Graupera
  Fundació Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona

Rui Miguel Dos Santos Benedito joined the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in 2012. He was graduated in Microbiology and Genetics at the Faculty of Sciences (University of Lisbon) and he did his Postdoc at the London Research Institute and at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine (Muenster, Germany) where he received the Peter Hans Hofschneider Prize for outstanding achievement in Molecular Medicine. Since then he has developed new genetically modified mice that have allowed him to conditionally delete multiple genes and show that the Notch signaling pathway can control angiogenesis independently of VEGF signaling. This finding has implications for the design of therapies targeting angiogenesis. He has received different awards such as the Prize Prince of Girona on his cardiovascular research.

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC)
Calle de Melchor Fernández Almagro 3
28029, Madrid
Tel.: (+34) 91 453 12 00

Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @RuiBenedito_