Antoni Bayes-genis MD, PhD

Dr. Antoni Bayes-Genis is chair of the Germans Trias Heart Institute (iCor), Director of the Cardiology Department at Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol (Badalona, Spain), Director of the ICREC (Heart Failure and Cardiac Regeneration) Research Program and Full Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has published over 4000 SCI papers with more than 10.500 citations. He has contributed to over 600 national and international conferences in an oral format. He is the inventor of 9 international patents and the Director/Co-director of 13 Ph.D. Thesis and has established several collaboration agreements with biotechnological companies.

His research is focused on two main areas, one more clinical and another basic-translational. From the clinical standpoint, he is interested in novel biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis in heart failure and sudden death as well as telemedicine. At the basic-translational level he is interested in mesenchymal stem cells (adipose tissue-derived, circulating progenitors, and umbilical cord-derived) and cardiac tissue engineering to salvage and restore injured myocardium. The ICREC group is also involved in tissue engineering projects on biocompatible polymers to develop bioactive structures with biomedical applications.