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King's College London | Professor Bijan Modarai

Aneurysms (swellings) in the aorta, the body’s main blood vessel, are often treated with stents. Sometimes stents can block branches of blood vessels supplying blood to the spinal cord, and in 10% of these cases, this interruption in blood-...

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University of Oxford | Dr Oliver Rider

Regardless of cause, most heart diseases ultimately result in the heart being unable to pump out as much blood as a normal heart can, because it can’t contract as forcefully. To contract, the heart needs an energy source called ATP, and it’...

The BHF has smashed the Guinness World Records title with almost 18,000 heartfelt messages united in world’s longest chain of paper hearts, in show of solidarity for heart patients.

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Imperial College London | Dr Alex Bottle

Over half a million people in the UK are living with heart failure, a debilitating condition with no cure where the heart is not pumping blood around the body efficiently. People with heart failure are usually under the care of their GP and...

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King's College London | Professor Manuel Mayr

BHF Professor Manuel Mayr and his team at King’s College London are leaders in the high-tech field of cardiovascular proteomics. This is the study of all the proteins – called the proteome – in cells of the heart and blood stream. This gran...

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University of Oxford | Professor Jurgen E Schneider

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is a technique used to investigate the structure and function of the heart. MR spectroscopy is a specialised technique which measures the chemical reactions and processes that provide the energy for heart fun...

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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...

Declan O'Regan is Professor of Cardiovascular AI at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London

We have awarded £28 million to seven university-led consortia to deliver the latest round of our 4‑year PhD programme. The funding will support 141 students to begin their 4-year PhDs between 2026 and 2029.

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