The Spanish Society of Cardiology together with the Inter-American Society of Cardiology have awarded the second place of the IX Magda Heras Prize for the "Best Work Published in Ibero-American Cardiovascular Journals" to the research entitled Cardiac remodeling in the preclinical model of experimental ischemic heart failure due to dyslipidemia in the mouse SR-B1 KO/ApoER6 1h/h by the authors Alejandra Lonis, Jackeline Moya, Jorge E Jalil, Maria Paz Ocaranza, Attilio Rigotti and Luigi Gabrielli, published in the Chilean Journal of Cardiology 2020.

The Magda Heras Award was instituted in 2013 by the Network of Editors of Ibero-American Cardiovascular Journals to recognize the best work published during the previous year in the scientific journals that make it up.. The selection of the best work is made through an open call, in which each editorial team presents as a candidate an article, the one that considers most relevant published in the editions of the period.

The IX edition of the Magda Heras Award, corresponding to the year 2021, the article in basic research entitled "Cardiac remodeling in the preclinical model of experimental ischemic heart failure due to dyslipidemia in the mouse SR-B1 KO/ApoER6 1h/h", published in 2020 in the Chilean Journal of Cardiology edited by the Chilean Society of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery (SOCHICAR), won second place.

The authors of this work are Alejandra Lonis, Jackeline Moya, Jorge E Jalil, María Paz Ocaranza, Attilio Rigotti, and Luigi Gabrielli. Dr. Jorge Jalil, corresponding author, expressed his gratitude on behalf of the team: "Many thanks to the SIAC and the Spanish Journal of Cardiology for this beautiful distinction, and also to the Chilean Journal of Cardiology for the support received", said to SOCHICAR.

Together with Dr.. María Paz Ocaranza, Dr. Jalil is senior researcher at CENDHY, members of the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases of the School of Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and part of the board of the Chilean Society of Hypertension. The Dra. Ocaranza is also a research associate at the Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDIS).

It should be noted that the work selected for the Magda Heras Award received the "Chilean Journal of Cardiology Award" delivered during the last edition of the Chilean Congress of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery.

Congratulations to the authors!

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