Cardiovascular Diseases
Description
This is one of the most comprehensive groups in the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute, and includes an Experimental Cardiology Laboratory, a Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit and the Clinical Research Unit. Thus, it works to generate knowledge about the mechanisms of heart disease, to produce new tools for diagnosis and therapy, while designing new ways to apply the current tools for the prevention and treatment of patients with cardiomyopathy.
It also has inter-departmental lines of research related to molecular and cell biology, medical imaging techniques and the evolution of technologies.