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Over the past 60 years, BHF support has enabled the training of generations of researchers and supported world-leading scientists to make discoveries that have helped save and improve people’s lives.

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University of Birmingham | Dr Katja Gehmlich

The heart responds to repeated exercise and other stresses by becoming bigger in a process known as cardiac hypertrophy. In the inherited disease hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), hypertrophy is abnormal and takes place in the absence of e...

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University of Manchester | Dr Delvac Oceandy

Heart failure is a life-threatening condition that develops when the heart becomes damaged because of a heart attack, high blood pressure or an inherited heart condition. In most cases, the heart fails because heart muscle cells overgrow - ...

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University of Birmingham | Dr Michael Tomlinson

Platelets are small cells that clump together to plug wounds and minimise blood loss, but when they clump together too much, it can block blood flow and cause heart attacks or strokes. This is called thrombosis. Scientists are studying plat...

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A team of researchers at Newcastle University have been awarded BHF funding to research new ways to reduce damage after heart attacks.

We’ve today paid tribute to the “outstanding contribution” that BHF Professor Rhian Touyz has made to our research, following her decision to move to McGill University in Quebec.

As research funders we really like to shout about all of the work that our researchers do. We owe it to our supporters to let them know what we do with the money they donate

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University of Leicester | Professor G Andre Ng

Professor G Andre Ng at the University of Leicester is studying how the nervous system is involved in triggering abnormal heart rhythms, called ventricular fibrillation, which can lead to sudden cardiac death (SCD). Heart disease can incr...