Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR) hosted this Wednesday 24th of April the first Spanish meeting to prevent stroke, organized by the new cooperative research network INVICTUS, approved by Instituto de Salud Carlos III. For the first time, during the following 4 years, researchers from the 11 Spanish leading centers which take part of this network will focus not only in the treatment and repair after stroke, but also in the prevention. The coordinator of the Neurovascular Diseases Area at VHIR and coordinator of the prevention area at INVICTUS, Dr. Joan Montaner, assures that “it is the first time that in Spain that we join together to cooperate in research to prevent stroke”. And continues, with this cooperation researchers will obtain “a wider vision of the disorder, because not only we will work with patients, but also with high-risk population groups". INVICTUS network arises from the previous network RETIC-RENEVAS, which in the last 5 years demonstrated the added value of coordinated and synergic work among different research groups in neurovascular diseases. Nonetheless, the new network is clearly focused on the translation of the results to the clinical practice to facilitate the search for knowledge to identify diagnostic and therapeutic targets in order to reduce stroke morbidity and mortality in our environment. In times of reduced governmental investment on research and due to the current economic frame in Europe, another important goal of INVICTUS is the achievement of patents that could be exploited and generate value to support the research in this field. 11 Spanish research institutes and hospital participate in this network: VHIR, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Institut d’Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Tries i Pujol, Institut de Recerca de l’Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona Dr. Josep Trueta, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Hospital Universitario La Paz de Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Salamanca, Clínica Universitaria de Pamplona and Hospital Universitario La Fe de Valencia.