Dr. Tomàs Ripoll Vera is a medical specialist in Cardiology, holds a PhD in Biosanitary Sciences from the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB, cum laude), and has extensive training in clinical management and healthcare administration. For more than twenty years (2003–2025), he served as Head of the Cardiology Department at Son Llàtzer University Hospital, and he is currently the Regional Research Coordinator of the Balearic Health Service and an Associate Professor in the Medicine Degree at the UIB. He is also the Coordinator of the Familial Cardiopathies Unit at Son Llàtzer University Hospital and Co-director of the MUSIB programme, a multidisciplinary regional initiative in the Balearic Islands dedicated to the study of sudden cardiac death.

He is the Principal Investigator of the Balearic Research Group on Genetic Cardiopathies, Sudden Death and TTR Amyloidosis at IdISBa, and a researcher at the Biomedical Research Networking Center for the Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition.

His scientific output includes more than 150 publications, participation in 25 competitive projects, and 95 clinical trials, 88 of them as Principal Investigator. Internationally, he is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and, since 2025, has coordinated the European Registry of Cardiomyopathies (GRASP-ESC). In addition, he has led the international cooperation programme “Reto Chagas” in Bolivia since 2000.

Dr. Tomàs Ripoll Vera

ORCID: 0000-0002-3170-5439

Managing Director

Carlos Enrique Herrero holds a degree in Telecommunication Engineering and a Master’s in Applied Telecommunications and Engineering Management from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Specialised in innovation management systems within biomedical research environments (protection and commercialisation of industrial and intellectual property) and in open innovation strategies and innovation systematisation in companies, he has extensive experience in project and team management in the ICT and health sectors, as well as in fundraising and business development.

He has developed his professional career—always linked to the field of research—from different perspectives and types of organisations. He began as a researcher in the field of telecommunication engineering at the i2CAT Foundation (Polytechnic University of Catalonia), later continuing as an innovation consultant in the private sector, providing services to companies and research centres at KIMbcn. His next position was at the Biomedical Research Institute of the Hospital de Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), where he specialised in research and innovation management in health and in the functioning and particularities of health research institutes.

In 2013, he joined the Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands with the aim of contributing to its creation and development, later leading the Innovation and Research Results Transfer Unit at IdISBa, until the moment he assumed general management.

Carlos Enrique Herrero