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University of Oxford | Professor Manuela Zaccolo

Heart failure is a debilitating condition that often carries a poor prognosis. We know that a molecule in heart cells, called cAMP, is a lynchpin in several processes that go awry in heart failure. In fact, some current medicines already ta...

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University of Reading | Professor Angela Clerk

Professor Angela Clerk is studying how heart muscle cells die after a heart attack to identify points where we could intervene and prevent it. The team is studying a new form of cell death called necroptosis, which could be important in the...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Nicholas Morrell

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) – high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs – is a rare but incurable condition that leads to heart failure. Several genetic mutations found in people with PAH patients are known to play an impor...

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King's College London | Professor Malcolm Irving

Professor Malcolm Irving at King’s College London is working out what controls the strength and duration of the heartbeat and what goes wrong in heart disease. During the heartbeat, the heart muscle contracts and pumps blood around the bod...

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University of Liverpool | Dr Guozheng Wang

Dr Guozheng Wang and his colleagues at the University of Liverpool are investigating what goes wrong in the circulation of people who are critically ill, for example, those with severe infection or after severe trauma. In critical illness...