Created in 2002, the Grand Prize will be given each year to a scientist or clinician who has made important contributions to cardiovascular physiology, biology, or medicine. Taken in the widest sense, these fields also include reconstructive surgery and the replacement of damaged tissues, physiology, pharmacology and therapeutic approaches, epidemiology and genetics, cell behavior, molecular mechanisms and regeneration, gene and cell therapies, development and congenital malformations. Scientific Grand Prize of an amount of 600,000 euros