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University of Bristol | Professor Deborah Anne Lawlor

BHF-funded research is behind many of the advances that are helping people with heart and circulatory diseases to live longer, better lives. By investing in research we are supporting scientists to make potentially life-saving discoveries, ...

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University of Bristol | Professor Alastair Poole

Professor Alastair Poole and colleagues at the University of Bristol are going to investigate a new protein called PKN1, which looks promising as an important regulator of platelet stickiness. Platelets are small cells that flow around...

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King's College London | Professor Albert Ferro

Professor Albert Ferro and his colleagues at King’s College London are studying how a process called apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is involved in heart and circulatory disease. Endothelial cells line the inner surface of all bloo...

We have launched a new equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategy with the aim of igniting change for our colleagues and volunteers, the research community and for millions of people living with heart and circulatory diseases.

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University of Cambridge | Professor Ian Wilkinson

The large arteries are elastic and they have an important role in buffering the swings of blood pressure that occur with each heartbeat. With age and in certain diseases, these arteries stiffen, leading to high blood pressure (hypertension)...

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Frances Crick Institute | Professor Steven Ley

Professor Steven Ley is studying a protein in cells called TPL-2, which is needed for some cells to become activated in atherosclerosis, when arteries become ‘furred up’ with fatty plaques. In atherosclerosis, inflammation occurs within the...

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