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A new antibody, created by researchers we’ve funded, could help doctors to identify the fatty plaques in arteries that cause most heart attacks and strokes earlier.

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University of Leeds | Professor Edward White

Researchers in the UK and France are testing a new theory that could change the treatment of irregular heart rhythms. Irregular heart rhythms – when the heart beat is too fast, too slow, ‘fluttering’, or chaotic – are called arrhythmias. T...

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University of Exeter | Dr John Dennis

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a serious, common condition which occurs when problems with the hormone insulin lead to high levels of sugar in the blood. Prolonged high blood sugar causes various health problems. Metformin is the first drug pres...

Find out how to apply for BHF’s Cardiovascular Grand Challenge, a new research funding competition opening in April 2026.

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University of Nottingham | Professor Jonas Emsley

The BHF is helping researchers at the University of Nottingham lead the way in drug discovery by contributing £235,111 towards a new state-of-the-art advanced chemical and biomolecular characterisation facility in the Nottingham Centre for ...

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King's College London | Professor Graham Lord

Pioneering research has led to advances in preventing organ rejection soon after a heart transplant. Transplant patients receive treatment to modify their immune systems – maximising the chances of their body accepting the donor heart. Howe...

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Medical Research Council | Ms Unknown Medical Research Council

The British Heart Foundation has joined a consortium of UK government and charity funders, led by the Medical Research Council (MRC), to contribute to a £19 million investment to establish four electronic-health research Centres of Excellen...

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University of Oxford | Professor Paul Leeson

Professor Paul Leeson at the University of Oxford has been awarded a Senior Clinical Research Fellowship to investigate how early life influences, like being born prematurely, could affect heart health later on in life. Professor Leeson...

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University College London | Professor Stephen Moss

Professors Stephen Moss and John Greenwood from University College London are interested in the growth of new blood vessels (a process called angiogenesis). This growth is an important repair process in the body. However, inappropriate grow...

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Imperial College London | Dr Isabelle Salles-Crawley

Heart attacks and strokes are caused by clots forming inside the blood vessels supplying the heart or brain. BAMBI is a protein on the surface of the cells that line our blood vessels called endothelial cells, and on the surface of platelet...