Departamento: Medicine

Centro académico: Faculty of Medicine

Area: Medicine

Research group: Clinical and Experimental Cardiology

Email: dpascual@um.es

Doctor by the Universidad de Murcia with the thesis Protesis intracoronarias en la practica intervencionista actual. Resultados clinicos y analisis de predictores a corto y largo plazo 1999. Supervised by Dr. Mariano Valdés Chávarri.

Head of the Cardiology Department at the University Clinical Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca and Full Professor of Cardiology at the University of Murcia (UM). In his extensive research career, he has participated in >100 clinical trials as on-site Principal Investigator (PI) and been National Coordinator in 5 Independent Clinical Trials (ICIs). He has been PI of the Clinical and Translational Cardiology Research Group since its foundation back in 2006. Where he has been PI of >30 competitive projects and, with which, he has secured funding of more than 3 million euros in the last 5 years (2018-2023). In this same period, he has published >120 articles (Q1 >50, D1 >30, and >7,000 citations). H-index = 64 and i10 index = 201. Currently, he is also Principal Investigator at the Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular research (CNIC), Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) and Fellow of the Heart Failure Association (FHFA), and Member of the National Commission of Cardiology since 2021. In 2020, he founded a health biotech company, Biocardio SL (UM spin-off, https://biocardio.es/), as a result of obtaining two invention patents for two of the main lines of research of his research group. These patents are in National Phases through their respective PCTs (IPN: WO 2021/250124 A1 and WO 2023/073118 A1). Furthermore, he actively participates as a scientific reviewer in high impact international journals and as an expert evaluator for ANEP (MINECO) and ISCIII.