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Swapping the heart’s energy source to treat heart failureUniversity of Oxford | Dr Oliver Rider
Regardless of cause, most heart diseases ultimately result in the heart being unable to pump out as much blood as a normal heart can, because it can’t contract as forcefully. To contract, the heart needs an energy source called ATP, and it’...
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Why are people from India more prone to heart disease?University of Southampton | Professor Caroline Fall
Professor Caroline Fall is investigating why people from the Indian sub-continent are more prone to heart disease and diabetes than people from Europe. By studying young adults in New Delhi and Vellore in India, Professor Fall and her t...
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Using DNA markers to personalise treatment for high blood pressureKing's College London | Professor Philip Chowienczyk
The BHF is working in partnership with the Medical Research Council and their Stratified Medicine Initiative, which awards funding to scientists to find out why groups of patients with the same diagnosis respond to treatments differently. O...
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Pandemic threatens future of research as early career scientists look to leave
Four in ten charity-funded early career scientists have considered leaving research due to funding concerns since the coronavirus hit the UK, according to a survey by the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC).
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Campaigning Toolkit - who to targetToolkit, 2 pages, published on 03/04/2012
When you're clear about the change you want to see, it's much easier to work out who you should be targeting.
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Searching for new drugs to treat blood vessel diseaseUniversity of East Anglia | Dr Samuel Fountain
Dr Samuel Fountain at the University of East Anglia is searching for new molecules that boost nitric oxide and could ultimately treat blood vessel diseases. Nitric oxide is a gas made by the endothelial cells lining our blood vessels, whi...
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Following the TRAIL to pulmonary arterial hypertensionUniversity of Sheffield | Professor Allan Lawrie
In this Senior Fellowship, Dr Lawrie, based at the University of Sheffield, will investigate the role of two proteins TRAIL and OPG in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a rare but devastating condition where high blood pressure in the ...
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What makes partially-specialised cells in a growing embryo turn into blood vessel cells?University of East Anglia | Dr Gi Fay Mok
In the growing embryo, stem cells (unspecialised cells) undergo rapid changes to become precursor cells (partially-specialised cells) and then specialised cells which perform specific functions. This process of cell differentiation is go...
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Scientists to investigate cause of heart defects in children
Scientists at the University of Oxford will try to identify new reasons why children are born with heart defects. Dr Duncan Sparrow has been awarded £941,000 by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to set up a research team to determine how environmental factors can cause abnormalities in how the heart develops.
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Advanced blood tests to diagnose heart attacks
More sensitive blood tests could help diagnose heart attacks, but it wasn’t clear how well they worked. BHF-funded research helped answer that question.