José Fuster is Assistant Professor and Group Leader at the Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) in Madrid (Spain). Previously, he completed postdoctoral training at Boston University School of Medicine in the USA and held faculty positions at Boston University (2015-2018) and the University of Virginia (2018). At CNIC he leads a research group focused on the investigation of the interplay between aging, hematopoiesis and cardiovascular disease, with a particular interest in the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and heart failure. He is considered a leading expert in the role of age-related clonal hematopoiesis in cardiovascular disease and he actively collaborates on this topic with several international research groups. His work on this topic has been published in prestigious journals, including research articles in Science, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Cell Reports. Among other awards, he has been awarded the Young Investigator Award of the European Atherosclerosis Society.