23 September

15:30 – 15:40 h Valentín Fuster, Director General del CNIC Carlos Macaya, Presidente de la SEC

15:40 – 16:05 h Where am I going? The future of cardiovascular research Valentín Fuster, Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, CNIC - Spain

16:05 – 16:30 h Choosing your advisor and research project Kenneth R. Chien, Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiovascular Research Center- Richard B. Simches Research Center, Boston - USA

16:30 – 17:15 h Discussion

17:15 – 17:35 h Coffee break

17:35 – 18:00 h Careers in basic research Miguel Torres, Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, CNIC - Spain

18:00 – 18:25 h Careers in experimental research Borja Ibáñez, Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, CNIC / Hospital Clínico San Carlos de Madrid - Spain

18:25 – 19:10 h Careers in translational research/ Imaging as a tool Valentín Fuster, Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, CNIC - Spain

19:10 – 19:55 h Discussion

24 September

09:30 – 09:55 h Careers in population genetics studies Roberto Elosua, IMIM (Instituto de Investigación Hospital del Mar), Barcelona - Spain

09:55 – 10:20 h New technologies: genomics, metabolomics & bioinformatics José María Ordovás, Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Tufts University, Massachussets - USA / Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, CNIC - Spain

10:20 – 10:50 h Coffee break

10:50 – 11:15 h New technologies in interventional cardiology Carlos Macaya, Hospital Clínico San Carlos de Madrid - Spain

11:15 – 12:00 h Discussion

12:00 – 12:30 h WORKSHOP: Choose, research & publish Valentín Fuster, Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, CNIC - Spain

12:30 – 13:00 h WORKSHOP: Doing clinical research in Spain Ginés Sanz, Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, CNIC - Spain