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University of Oxford | Dr Ricardo Carnicer Hijazo

BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow Dr Ricardo Carnicer is studying ways to treat diabetic cardiomyopathy. The condition is specific to people with diabetes and affects the pumping ability of heart muscle, which can lead to heart...

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University of Leicester | Professor Anthony Gershlick

Professor Anthony Gershlick at the University of Leicester is researching how best to treat people who experience smaller heart attacks, called NSTEMI, where the affected coronary artery is not completely blocked. Currently, people who have...

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Cardiff University | Professor Valerie O'Donnell

Professor Valerie O’Donnell from Cardiff University has recently worked out the structure of several new families of fats (lipids) called ‘esterified eicosanoids’ that are made by immune cells in our bloodstream and may have a role in heart...

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King's College London | Professor Ajay Shah

BHF Professor Ajay Shah and his team at King’s College London want to find out if a protein called Nox4D could help the heart recover after a heart attack by making healthy heart muscle cells divide. Scientists have recently found that he...

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University of Leicester | Professor Thompson Robinson

Many people who have had a sudden (or acute) stroke have high blood pressure, which can fall several days afterwards. Currently, doctors don’t know the best way to manage blood pressure in these acute stroke patients. We need to understand ...

It was previously thought that blood pressure lowering medication might be more effective if taken at night-time. The TIME trial tested whether morning or night-time dosing makes a difference.

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University of Edinburgh | Professor Nicholas Mills

Firefighters are at an increased risk of having a cardiovascular event, like a heart attack. It is the commonest cause of death in these individuals, accounting for 45 per cent of deaths on duty. The reasons why remain unknown, but could be...

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Imperial College London | Professor Peter Weinberg

Professor Peter Weinberg and his colleagues at Imperial College London are looking into why atherosclerosis - when arteries become furred up with fatty plaques and narrow – develops unevenly in blood vessels. Scientists believe that dif...

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Medical Research Council | Mr. Unknown UKCRC Public Health Research Centres of Excellence

The British Heart Foundation is part of a consortium of funders that are renewing their support or five Centres of Excellence in Public Health Research, based in Newcastle, Cardiff, Belfast, Cambridge and Nottingham. The Centres of Excel...