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Research beyond the heart
The BHF funds more than £100m of research every year, looking at conditions that affect every part of the body.
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Team BHF raise over £1.5 million at the London Marathon
More than 760 BHF runners including Jack Wilshere, Lisa McGrillis and Steve Sidwell raise over £1.5 million for the BHF at the 2025 TCS London Marathon
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Pacemaker monitors: can you turn them off to save energy?
Vicki Gurney, Cardiac Physiologist, on why it’s crucial (and cheap) to always keep your pacemaker monitor switched on.
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A three dimensional sat-nav for the heartImperial College London | Professor Peter Kohl
The heart is amazingly complex, yet astonishingly robust in its response to changing conditions, from exercise to aging, disease and even transplantation to another body. This ability to adapt over milliseconds to years is based on cell lev...
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Preventing stroke damage by mimicking the body’s own anti-clot drugsUniversity of Manchester | Professor Stuart M Allan
Stroke is a devastating condition which occurs when blood supply to the brain is limited. It can occur when a clot blocks the brains blood supply and is made worse by inflammation of the blood vessels in the brain. Von Willebrand Factor (v...
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How acidity interferes with the heart beatUniversity 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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Studying problems with calcium channels in the heartCardiff University | Dr Nia Thomas
Coordinated contraction of the heart muscle during each heartbeat is only achieved when calcium movement in heart cells is well controlled. Unfortunately, we now know that genetic errors in key molecules and structures of the heart that con...
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Uncovering the mechanisms behind pulmonary arterial hypertension, towards a cureUniversity of Sheffield | Professor Allan Lawrie
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare but fatal disease. It is most common in young women, who – if untreated – have a prognosis worse than some cancers. PAH is driven by unchecked cell growth in the blood vessels in the lung. Thi...
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How does the MyBP-C protein cause cardiomyopathy?King's College London | Dr Thomas Kampourakis
BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow Dr Thomas Kampourakis is studying how faulty proteins lead to cardiomyopathies, diseases of the heart muscle that can cause heart failure. When the heart beats many elements work together t...
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Congenital heart disease - Finley and Louie's stories
Finley and Louie were both born with congenital heart defects. Here are their stories and how our research is revolutionising open-heart surgeries.