Dr. Teresa Padró, head of the Research Group on Biomarkers of the evolution of cardiovascular disease at the Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau – IIB Sant Pau, has been appointed coordinator of the Coronary Pathophysiology Working Group and microcirculation from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). She takes over from Prof. Dimitris Tousoulis, from the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in Greece.
This ESC working group, which includes both basic and clinical researchers, has among its main objectives the promotion of research to advance the integrative understanding of the physiology and pathophysiology of coronary vessels, better understand the mechanisms of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery pathology through the promotion and coordination of preclinical and clinical studies.
In addition, its mission is to carry out informative tasks to offer professionals and the general population reliable and contrasted information related to coronary pathophysiology, microcirculation and ischemia. Also promote the participation of the members of this group in all kinds of scientific activities.
Sant Pau has a very active participation in this scientific society. Dr. Gemma Vilahur, from the group of Molecular and Therapeutic Pathology of Atherothrombotic and Ischemic Diseases of the Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, has been the coordinator, for the last two years, of the Working Group on Thrombosis of the ESC.
