“What I most like of my job is to imagine, its semiartistic part”Could you explain what are you currently investigating? I study metabolic changes associated to different pathologies, above all the cardiocirculatory ones. We try to establish which patients present metabolic changes that healthy people don’t present and, like that, we can diagnose different pathologies. Tell us what you usually do on a common day working in your lab.Basically, I spend all the day in front of the computer, I don’t make a lot of pipette or lab table experiments. I study chemical analysis and I do data analysis, but always in front of the computer. When I have tried to make manual works, I couldn’t do it very well. I am very bad with hands…What do you like most about your work? What I most like of my job is to imagine, its semiartistic part! Creativity. I like to star from some known data and take it beyond.And the least?Repeatability. I don’t like when you have to repeat so many times the same experiment for having a meaningful number of samples. If you have 400 patients, then there are 400 samples to be studied. Your greatest satisfaction as a researcher was...I haven’t had particular remarkable moments, but there have been so many small moments in which you find something that was very difficult to find out. The way has been difficult, but suddenly it comes! It comes often at work, but sometimes it doesn’t come here, you are in another place and it comes, a light bulb goes off! Small illuminations, small sparks.How do you feel about a major scientific discovery?I feel really interested, I like to know how things have been done and where they can bring us!It is true the proverb that says: patience is the mother of science?A lot of patience is necessary. But not always! Sometimes things come easily, but this is not the most common. Perseverance is also needed. , In times of crisis, why is it necessary to maintain and encourage investment in biomedical research?It is necessary because it is the future. If there is not research today, tomorrow we won’t have future.Explain an example in your research group that shows that quality research has direct applications to the health of patients.We are looking for new diagnostic tools, and also we have recently registered a treatment for avoiding heart failure postinfarction, at the moment it is in the preclinical phase and we hope that patient trials will begin soon.Why do you like working at VHIR?Because we have patients relatively near. Here it is easy to see the utility of research, we are not isolated from the reality that interests people. When you are at university you study very interesting topics, but sometimes not very relevant to society. Here we study questions asked directly from doctors: “I would like to know if this patient can be differentiated from this one because of…”. This is the most important of working in a hospital: proximity between the research centre and the hospital.