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    How do genetic faults cause lymphoedema?

    St George's, University of London | Dr Pia Ostergaard

    Supervised by Dr Pia Ostergaard, this PhD student is studying how genetic faults can lead to primary lymphoedema, a lifelong, often disabling condition affecting the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is a network of vessels that car...

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    Finding new ways to treat aortic aneurysms

    University of Bristol | Dr Jason L Johnson

    Dr Jason Johnson is working out what causes aortic aneurysms – when the wall of the aorta, the main blood vessel carrying blood from the heart, becomes damaged and weak, and bulges like a balloon. If aneurysms become large they can ruptur...

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    A new method to study thrombosis that uses fewer animals

    University of Cambridge | Dr Matthew Harper

    Dr Matthew Harper is supervising a PhD student who will develop a new research model to study thrombosis (when blood clots form inside blood vessels) that is less reliant on animals. Heart attacks and strokes are caused by blood clots b...

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    The role of chemical messengers in heart failure

    University of Leeds | Professor Derek S Steele

    During heart failure, changes in the heart reduce its ability to pump blood efficiently to the brain and body. One important change during heart failure is disruption to a critical process called calcium signalling. Calcium plays an importa...

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    A three dimensional sat-nav for the heart

    Imperial College London | Professor Peter Kohl

    The heart is amazingly complex, yet astonishingly robust in its response to changing conditions, from exercise to aging, disease and even transplantation to another body. This ability to adapt over milliseconds to years is based on cell lev...

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    Keeping blood vessels healthy in diabetes

    University of Leeds | Professor Mark Kearney

    Narrowing of the blood vessels is a major problem for people with diabetes and can cause high blood pressure and predispose to heart attack, stroke or peripheral arterial disease. Professor Mark Kearney and colleagues from the University o...

  • Cardiac Workforce Census 2023-2024

    We've partnered with the British Cardiovascular Society to carry out a census of the cardiac workforce in England.

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    Testing single muscle cell threads in heart biopsies from people with cardiomyopathies

    Imperial College London | Dr Petr Vikhorev

    Cardiomyopathies are diseases that affect the heart muscle. They are frequently caused by genetic mutations, which are passed down through families. Cardiomyopathies can be very serious, causing enlargement or thickening of the heart, heart...

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    Understanding how aspirin affects blood clotting

    Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Timothy Warner

    Professor Timothy Warner at Queen Mary, University of London is investigating how best to use aspirin to protect against heart attacks and strokes. During a heart attack small cells in the blood called platelets become activated and stick ...

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    Can the antioxidant drug cysteamine treat atherosclerosis?

    University of Reading | Professor David S Leake

    Dr David Leake and his colleagues at the University of Reading are finding out if an antioxidant drug called cysteamine could treat atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis develops when arteries become furred up with cholesterol, and it can ca...