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University of Bristol | Professor Jules Hancox

The heart’s ability to pump blood round the body depends on co-ordinated electrical activity generated by small proteins in heart cells called ‘ion channels’. When blood flow to the heart is blocked off, for example, because of coronary hea...

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Researchers believe a chip that reads the body’s own breathing signals to control one’s heart beat could be much more effective, thanks to funding from us.

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University of Oxford | Professor Sir Rory E Collins

The University of Oxford is establishing a new Big Data Institute (BDI for short) to help analyse large and complex sets of results that are being generated from scientific research, including research into the heart and circulatory system....

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Imperial College London | Dr Thomas McKinnon

Von Willebrand Factor (VWF) is a large blood protein that helps blood clotting by interacting with platelets when the blood vessels are injured. Platelets are a type of cell found in blood that help to plug a wound and prevent blood loss. H...

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University College London | Dr Nephtali Marina Gonzalez

Obesity is often associated with high blood pressure and childhood obesity is a significant risk factor for the development of heart disease in later life. Understanding the link between obesity and heart disease is of vital importance if w...

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University of Oxford | Dr Catherine Pears

Platelets are small circulating cells in the blood that clump together when blood clots after an injury, to prevent excessive bleeding. But platelets are also involved in forming clots in arteries, which can lead to heart attacks and stroke...

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University of Reading | Professor Angela Clerk

Several drugs to treat cancer are known to have long-term side effects on the heart. Among them are drugs that impact a series of proteins which talk to each other, called the ERK1/2 pathway. This pathway promotes cancer, but it also protec...