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Meet the charity shop couples... together for 130 years combined
This summer, we are encouraging the nation to book a taster volunteering session with their local shop. Three couples share the reasons they love volunteering…
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Discovery Research PhD Studentships
Find out more about PhD studentships at the British Heart Foundation
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Heart failure - REM-HF
The REM-HF study tested whether information recorded by devices implanted in the chest could be used to help improve the care of people with heart failure.
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Is the nervous system involved in abnormal heart rhythms in acquired long QT syndrome?University of Birmingham | Dr James Winter
BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow Dr James Winter is studying long QT syndrome, a disorder of the heart’s electrical system, characterised by a typical pattern on an electrocardiogram. Long QT syndrome can be inherited beca...
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How is oestrogen linked to pulmonary arterial hypertension?University of Strathclyde | Professor Margaret MacLean
Professor Margaret MacLean and colleagues at the University of Glasgow are studying why more women than men develop pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), but men die more quickly. In PAH, the pulmonary arteries (arteries of the lungs) ...
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Why do fatty plaques develop unevenly throughout arteries?Imperial College London | Professor Peter Weinberg
Professor Peter Weinberg and his colleagues at Imperial College London are looking into why atherosclerosis - when arteries become furred up with fatty plaques and narrow – develops unevenly in blood vessels. Scientists believe that dif...
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Developing a new drug to prevent heart damage in diabetesUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Thomas Krieg
Dr Thomas Krieg and his team at the University of Cambridge are testing whether a drug that they have developed protects cells from being damaged by high glucose levels in diabetes. People with diabetes often have high blood sugar peaks...
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Creating a map of ‘tissue factor’ to reveal its role in normal and abnormal blood clottingUniversity of Surrey | Professor John McVey
Blood clotting is an essential and tightly controlled defence mechanism that happens instantly to prevent extensive blood loss when a blood vessel is damaged. It begins when blood is exposed to cells displaying a molecule called tissue fact...
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A new imaging method to detect heart muscle changes after a heart attackImperial College London | Professor David Firmin
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful, safe research and clinical tool, with more than 2.3 million scans performed each year in the NHS. The BHF has awarded a grant to Professor David Firmin to study a new MRI method called diffusi...
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Investigating the role of protein phosphatases in the heartKingston University London | Dr Andrew Snabaitis
In this studentship, the researchers will study the function of a family of enzymes, the protein phosphatases (PP2A, PP4 and PP6) and their regulatory protein, alpha 4, in heart cells. They believe that these enzymes are involved in contro...