Celia Fernandez-Sanz, a pre-doctoral student of Dr. Marisol Ruiz-Meana in the research group on Cardiovascular Diseases of Vall d’hebron Institute of Research (VHIR) has won the ISHR Best Poster Award in the recently concluded joint meeting of the "http://www.ishr-europe.org/index.htm" International Society for Heart Research (ISHR) and the Council of Basic Cardiovascular Science of the European Society of Cardiology (Barcelona 3-6 of July 2014). The awarded work, conducted in collaboration with "https://www.cnic.es/es/index.php" CNIC under the direction of Dr. Ruiz-Meana, describes a new mechanism of altered function in cardiac cells in advanced age, consisting in an alteration of the communication between two important organelles within those cells, the mitochondria and the sarcoplasmic reticulum, and used sophysticated analyses of cell physiology with in vivo confocal microscopy and advanced proteomic methods.In fact, the research groups in cardiovascular diseases have been the local hosts in this congress, the 32nd meeting of the European Section of the ISHR - a success well above the expected assistance: more than 250 participants on the 3rd of July and more than 700 total considering the joint meeting between ISHR and FCVB (Frontiers in Cardiovacular Biology), where the prized poster was also exposed. The goal of this international society is to promote the exchange of ideas between scientists and clinicians in the field of cardiovascular biology and medicine. Besides the award, it should be noted that Drs. Ruiz-Meana and Dr. García-Dorado, coordinator of the cardiovascular disease area, chaired some of the congress sessions, and Dr. Ruiz-Meana is member of the European Council of the ISHR.