Prof. Lina Badimon is Professor at the Medical School of UVic-UCC / IRIS-CC and Scientific Director of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation for Health and Innovation (FICSI), Barcelona. She is Academic of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia (RAMC); Academic of the Royal Academy of Pharmacy of Catalonia (RAFC) and Academic of the Royal National Academy of Pharmacy of Spain (Institute of Spain) (RANF) and Professor of Scientific Research Council of Spain (CSIC). She is President EMLTD-Foundation (European-Mediterranean League Against Thrombosis). She is Executive Editor of the European Heart Journal, and Advisor/Consulting Editor of Nature Rev Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research.

Her research activities focus on cardio-metabolic diseases, thrombosis, atherosclerosis, ischemic heart disease and healthy ageing. She has published more than 735 articles in highly qualified journals with her work highly cited (citations: >83,000) (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Badimon+L&show_snippets=off&sort=date). She has written more of 250 reviews and book chapters.

Previous appointments include:

 Director of the Cardiovascular Area at IR-Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona (2018-2025); Director of the Cardiovascular Sciences Institute-ICCC/CSIC in Barcelona (2003-2018); and Head of Department of Molecular Pathology and Therapeutics at CSIC, Barcelona (1992-2003). Previously in USA, she was Director of the Cardiology-Research Laboratory and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY (1982-1992); and Lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School/Consultant-to-the-Cardiac Unit, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (1992-1995).

Positions of Trust:  

First woman President of the Spanish Society of Atherosclerosis (1996-2000) and of the European Society of Clinical Investigation (2000-2002). Member of the Executive Committee of European Society of Atherosclerosis (2001-2002).

At the European Society of Cardiology she has served as Chair WG of Thrombosis) (2010-2012), of the WG on Coronary Physiopathology and Microcirculation (2012-2014), of the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science (2014-2016); from 2016 to 2018 she was Vice-President of ESC in charge of Scientific Affairs and later on chair of the Advocacy Committee (2018-2020) and of the Patient Forum (2020-2022).

From 2018-2025 she has been Member of the Supervisory Board of Berlin Institute of Health and Chair of its External Scientific Committee, Berlin, Germany. She is member of Scientific Advisory Boards of National and International Research Institutions and International Funding Agencies in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Poland, Spain, The Netherlands, UK and the European Community.

She is the Chair of the External Advisory Boards of IMIBIC, INIBIC, IBIMA and member of the Supervisory Board of ISPA (all Biomedical Science Institutes from the Carlos III Network associated to University Hospitals in Spain) since 2028 to the present. From 2019 she is President of the SAB of the Cardiovascular Ludwig Boltzman Institute of the University of Vienna.

Honors:

-Fellow of the Cardiovascular Science Council and Fellow of the Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Council of the American Heart Association; Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology; Distinguished Fellow of the International Atherosclerosis Society.

-Honorary Memberships of: Spanish Society of Hypertension; Romanian Society of Hypertension; Hungarian Society of Cardiology; Spanish Society of Arteriosclerosis; Mexican Society of Cardiology and Peruvian Society of Cardiology.

– Doctorate Honoris Causa by Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania; and Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Medical School of the University of Cordoba, Spain.

-Visiting Professorships at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (2015-2028; 2020-2022); and at the University de Paris East, France (2020 -2023).

Awards:

-Academic and Scientific Career Achievement “Carles Martí Henneberg” Award

-Narcis Monturiol Award, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona 1993

-Creu de San Jordi, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona 2004

“Joan Codina Altés” Award, Catalan Society of Cardiology, Barcelona 2009

-Albert Struyvenberg Gold Medal of the European Society of Clinical Investigation, Bari, Italy 2010

-“Rey Jaime I” Award on Medical Research, Valencia Spain 2014

– Henry N. Neufeld Memorial Award – ISCP, Kyoto, Japan 2018

– Academic and Scientific Career Achievement Award, Inter-American Society of Cardiology, Panama 2023

– European Society of Cardiology ESC William Harvey Lecture, Amsterdam. NL 2023

– 10th European Association of Cardiovascular Pathology Michael Davies Distinguished Award, Padua, Italy 2023