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Safe guarding the cell’s energy sources to protect the heart during a heart attackUniversity College London | Professor Derek Hausenloy
Ischaemic heart disease commonly presents as a heart attack due to a blockage in one of the main heart arteries, depriving the heart muscle of oxygen and nutrients resulting in heart muscle injury. New treatments are required to protect the...
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Understanding how heart cells die in heart failureKingston University London | Dr Andrew Snabaitis
Heart failure is a devastating condition that affects over half a million people in the UK, and there is currently no cure. It usually happens after a heart attack, when a section of heart tissue dies and no longer works properly. Scientist...
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Searching for ways to promote new blood vessel growthUniversity of Leeds | Dr Georgia Mavria
In this PhD studentship supervised by Dr Georgia Mavria, the student is studying the complex process of new blood vessel growth, called angiogenesis. In heart and circulatory disease, blood vessels do not work properly, often because the...
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How blood vessels form hollow tubesUniversity of Bristol | Professor Harry Mellor
Professor Harry Mellor and his colleagues at the University of Bristol are studying blood vessel growth to try to reveal new ways to help people with blood vessel disease. Angiogenesis - where new blood vessels are formed from pre-existin...
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Research Excellence at the University of CambridgeUniversity of Cambridge | Professor Martin Bennett
By investing in research the BHF are supporting scientists to make potentially life-saving discoveries, which could help us beat the heartbreak caused by heart and circulatory diseases across the world. But sometimes it takes more than a on...
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Can reducing blood pressure variability after a stroke improve outcomes?University of Leicester | Professor Thompson Robinson
Many people who have had a sudden (or acute) stroke have high blood pressure, which can fall several days afterwards. Currently, doctors don’t know the best way to manage blood pressure in these acute stroke patients. We need to understand ...
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Revealing the role of angiotensin II in pulmonary arterial hypertensionUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor A Mark Evans
In pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), higher levels of a hormone called angiotensin II promote PAH because they cause the smooth muscle cells that line the wall of the lung arteries to contract, raising the pressure in these vessels. Hi...
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New magnetic resonance technology for the University of OxfordUniversity of Oxford | Professor Damian Tyler
Heart failure is a debilitating condition and can cause breathlessness, making it almost impossible for patients to do even simple exercise such as walking up stairs. During heart failure, changes occur in heart muscle. BHF-funded scient...
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Bio-engineering blood vessels to improve long term success of heart bypass surgeryUniversity of Bristol | Professor Paolo Madeddu
More than two million people are living in the UK with coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease occurs when the vessels supplying blood to the heart – the coronary arteries – become narrowed or blocked by fatty plaques. A common treat...
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Trialling physical exercise and psychological support in the treatment of ’broken heart syndrome’University of Aberdeen | Professor Dana Dawson
Stress-induced cardiomyopathy – also known as ‘broken heart syndrome’ and ‘takotsubo syndrome’ –is a rare condition where major emotional stress causes symptoms like a heart attack, without blockage of the coronary heart arteries. People w...