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University of Cambridge | Professor Martin Bennett

In this Clinical Research Training Fellowship supervised by BHF Professor Martin Bennett, the fellow is working out how to predict which atherosclerotic plaques are most likely to rupture, leading to heart attacks and strokes. Atheroscle...

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University of Bristol | Professor Alastair Poole

Supervised by Professor Alastair Poole, a PhD student is studying what keeps platelets - small blood cells that stick together and form clots when you are injured – working normally. Understanding how platelets work will mean that we can f...

A few small steps can make a healthy diet and help you to control your weight, too. Dietitian Annemarie Aburrow shows us how.

Researchers part-funded by the BHF have found 107 new gene regions associated with high blood pressure, potentially enabling doctors to identify at-risk patients and target treatments.

This is our first statistical publication to focus solely on children and young people. All of our statistical publications are produced in collaboration with the University of Oxford.

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University College London | Professor Christiana Ruhrberg

Blood vessel disease contributes to heart attacks, strokes, blindness and lung disease, and the stimulation of new vessel growth is a promising treatment for these conditions. But an unwanted side effect of blood vessel growth is tissue swe...

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University of Glasgow | Professor Margaret MacLean

More than 2,000 people in the UK have pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), where overactive cell growth in blood vessel walls reduces the space for blood flow in the lungs. Professor Margaret MacLean has been awarded a three-year grant to...

Professor Sven Plein, based at the University of Leeds, has been named BHF Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging.

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool that analyses ECG readings during routine heart scans could identify people at risk of type 2 diabetes as much as ten years before they begin to develop the condition, according to research we've funded.

We are calling for a greater focus, investment, and support into cardiac services in Scotland.