Vascular smooth muscle cell loss underpins the accelerated atherosclerosis in Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome

M.R.H. is supported by a‘Juan de la Cierva’ postdoctoral fellow- ship (FJCI-2017-33299) from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCIU). Work in V.A.’s laboratory is supported by grants from the Spanish Instituto de Salud Carlos III (AC16/00091 and AC17/00067) and MCIU (SAF2016-79490-R), with co-funding from the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER,‘Una manera de hacer Europa’), the Progeria Research Foundation (Established Investigator Award 2014-52), and the Fundació Marató TV3 (122/C/2015). The CNIC is supported by the MCIU and the Pro CNIC Foundation, and is a Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence (SEV-2015-0505); Instituto de Salud Carlos III [AC16/00091 and AC17/00067]; MCIU [SAF2016-79490-R]; MCIU [FJCI- 2017-33299]; MCIU [SEV-2015-0505]; Progeria Research Foundation [2014-52].