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    What genes control how the aortic arch develops?

    Newcastle University | Dr Simon Bamforth

    Supervised by Dr Simon Bamforth, this PhD student is studying the genetics behind congenital diseases that affect the aortic arch, a major blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart. Every year babies are born with aortic arch arter...

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    Alternative ways to treat pulmonary hypertension

    Imperial College London | Professor Ian Adcock

    Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries carrying blood to the lungs, causing damage to the right side of the heart. Symptoms include breathlessness or tiredness. The condition can lead to deat...

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    Understanding heart metabolism in diabetes and aortic stenosis

    University of Leeds | Dr Eylem Levelt

    People with aortic stenosis (a narrowing of the aortic valve opening) often also have type 2 diabetes. Having diabetes can affect how well people recover from having their aortic valve replaced, but it is not known why. The heart is hard...

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    Developing a new model simulating the heartbeat

    Imperial College London | Professor Cesare M N Terracciano

    Supervised by Professor Cesare Terracciano, an MBPhD student is developing a new model that simulates the heartbeat in the laboratory so it can be used in research to bring regenerative medicine to the clinic. The ability to make cardia...

  • Injectable microspheres to repair failing hearts

    Researchers we fund have developed biodegradable microspheres that can be used to deliver heart cells generated from stem cells to repair damaged hearts after a heart attack, in research presented at the British Cardiovascular Society conference.

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    Modelling blood flow before and after vascular surgery

    University College London | Dr Vanessa Diaz

    Circulatory diseases are complicated to treat and can vary between individuals. When choosing from different treatment options available, doctors gather information about the shape of affected blood vessels using scans. But these often cann...

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    How do proteins FPR2 and ALX mediate blood clotting?

    University of Reading | Dr Sakthivel Vaiyapuri

    BHF-funded researchers in Reading are looking to understand what exactly happens during blood clotting, so that new medicines can stop its harmful effects while preserving the life-saving ones. Platelets are small circulating blood cells t...