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University of Oxford | Professor Kazem Rahimi

Supervised by Professor Kazem Rahimi, this PhD student is developing a new computer model to help doctors care for people with heart failure. Heart failure, when the heart cannot pump blood effectively around the body, severely impacts h...

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University of Oxford | Professor Kim A Dora

The inner lining cells of the blood vessel, called endothelial cells, acts as a barrier that controls the movement of fluid (including water) and other molecules from the blood and across the vessel wall. To maintain blood pressure and flow...

We have awarded over £900,000 to fund four ambitious projects at centres across the UK.

The Reimagining Help Guide aims to diversify sources of help outside of hospital, with the aim of enabling people with long term health conditions to take control and ensure they live well.

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University of Birmingham | Dr Victoria Heath

Dr Victoria Heath and her team at the University of Birmingham are studying the processes that control angiogenesis - when blood vessels form from existing vessels. This process is important in health and in heart and circulatory disease. ...

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University of Oxford | Dr Andrew Lewis

Immunocardiology is an area of research looking at immune cells in the heart. A group of immune cells called macrophages are thought to be particularly important, but there is currently no method for non-invasively measuring these cells in ...

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Imperial College London | Professor Justin C Mason

To maintain a healthy circulation the cells lining our arteries and veins send and receive chemical messages to and from other cells. This cell-cell communication occurs in several different ways. One way is via microscopic particles releas...

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University of Cambridge | Dr Paola Caruso

Dr Paola Caruso at the University of Cambridge will study changes in microRNAs in the endothelial cells of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). PAH is characterized by high blood pressure in the lungs. Although the precise c...

Developing new ways to measure stiffness of arteries

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University of Aberdeen | Professor Stefan Hoppler

After damage from a heart attack, the heart is unable to repair itself. Instead the damaged area turns into scar tissue, irreparably affecting the heart’s function. Understanding how heart muscle is first built in the developing embryo coul...