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Get to know our BHF funded researchers, from PhD students to intermediate and senior basic science and clinical research fellows.

Tesco has become the UK’s first supermarket to begin registering its 2,190 defibrillators to a new national database that could improve cardiac arrest survival rates in the UK.

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University of Sheffield | Professor Paul Evans

Atherosclerosis, the build-up of fatty deposits in blood vessels, begins at the branches and bends of arteries. This plaque disturbs blood flow, causing a phenomenon called low ‘wall shear stress’ (WSS). In turn, this leads to abnormal grow...

Scientists we fund have made a breakthrough in understanding the process that leads to a blood clot forming in the lungs - a condition that kills more than two thousand people in the UK each year.

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University of Oxford | Professor Shoumo Bhattacharya

Scientists understand that a complex network of molecules keep the heart and circulatory system functioning normally. Often it is damage to these networks that causes disease. Clues to how they work come from studying development in the emb...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Hugh Markus

Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is a disease affecting the small blood vessels of the brain. It can lead to a lacunar stroke – a type of stroke which happens when one of the small blood vessels deep within the brain becomes blocked. ...

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Queen Mary, University of London | Dr Suchita Nadkarni

Pre-eclampsia is a common condition that occurs during pregnancy. It is a leading cause of death in mothers and unborn babies worldwide. Women with pre-eclampsia have abnormal heart function during pregnancy and a high risk of developing h...

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University of Cambridge | Dr Kevin O'Shaughnessy

The control of sodium and potassium salts in the body is important for regulating blood pressure. This balance is regulated in a special part of the kidneys called the distal convoluted tubule, or DCT. However, the exact mechanism used by t...