Borja Ibáñez Cabeza

Biography

Borja Ibáñez holds a degree in medicine from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a PhD from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He completed his clinical fellowship in cardiology at the Jimenez Diaz Hospital Foundation in Madrid, during which he became interested in clinical research, working mainly with techniques of invasive imaging for the study of the disease atherothrombotic. After completing his training in clinical cardiology, he did a three-year training period in basic research at Mount Sinai in New York. His doctoral thesis focused on the study of the ability of HDL-cholesterol to stabilize atheroma plates and their assessment using non-invasive imaging tools. Since returning to Spain, I combined his scientific activity in the CNIC with clinical activity at the Jimenez Diaz University Hospital. His passion is the study of myocardial diseases, with a clear translational vocation. His research ranges from the study of the mechanisms responsible for the development of myocardial diseases, to clinical trials to test therapies identified by his group in preclinical studies. His clinical activity consists mainly of coronary interventions of patients suffering from acute myocardial infarction. To perform this translational research, he uses noninvasive imaging technology, mainly magnetic resonance, including the development of new imaging algorithms to improve the use both on research and clinical levels.

Research Interest

Cardiovascular Imaging