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University of Reading | Professor Angela Clerk

Cancer is a common disease and many patients are given powerful anticancer drugs in order to combat it. However, little is known about the other effects these drugs have on the body, particularly the heart and circulatory system. This labor...

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University of Sheffield | Professor Tim Chico

The BHF is helping researchers at the University of Sheffield provide world-leading facilities for heart research by contributing £243,000 towards a new state-of-the-art microscope. The University of Sheffield is known for its work on ze...

The BHF has responded to the Government's Spring Budget.

BHF partners with the Alan Turing Institute to tackle heart disease and stroke using artificial intelligence.

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Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Federica Marelli Berg

Professor Marelli Berg and her team have discovered that in some patients immune cells may cause dilated cardiomyopathy and are searching for ways to stop them. Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a condition where the heart chambers become ...

Through our membership of the European Heart Network we’re pledging to play a leading role in a global coalition to reduce the death and suffering caused by heart and circulatory disease worldwide.

Researchers we've funded have developed a new type of ‘heart plaster’ to revolutionise the way surgeons treat children living with congenital heart disease, so they don’t need as many open-heart operations.

Graham had a cardiac arrest in July 2023 whilst cycling with friends. Thankfully, a nearby defibrillator was located thanks to a couple of policemen.

British Heart Foundation is contributing to the MESSAGE (Medical Science Sex and Gender Equity) initiative to help develop guidance for researchers about how to consider sex and gender in research.

Action Team member, Harvinder Gill, volunteered at the 3 Peaks event in July and shares why volunteering for the BHF is so close to her heart.