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A team of scientists we fund at Queen’s University, Belfast, have discovered a gene that increases the risk of blood vessel damage in people with diabetes.

Research that we are funding at the University of Manchester will investigate how regulating heart cells’ recycling system could slow the progression of heart failure.

New research we're funding in Wales could lead to better outcomes for patients in the future. Dr Harry Ahmed is a GP from Rhondda Cynon Taf and Senior Clinical Lecturer in Epidemiology at Cardiff University's School of Medicine. He's investigating if there’s a link between patients having urinary tract infections (UTIs) and suffering a heart attack or stroke.

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Medical Research Council | Unknown National Prevention Research Initiative

Heart and circulatory disease cause thousands of deaths in the UK each year. The British Heart Foundation has awarded £1million over the next 5 years to continue its support for The National Prevention Research Initiative, a collaboration b...

Urgent funding is needed to increase heart failure nurse numbers, education and expertise across NHS Scotland, finds a new review of services.

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University of Glasgow | Dr Paul Welsh

In this Intermediate Fellowship, Dr Welsh aims to develop biomarker tests to better predict the risk of cardiovascular disease, including a heart attack. Doctors currently use risk scores to assess how high a person’s risk of a heart attack...

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Imperial College London | Dr Junaid Zaman

Cardiologist Dr Junaid Zaman at Imperial College London has received a BHF Travel Fellowship to spend one year working in a lab at Stanford University in California, USA. The Stanford researchers are experts in understanding and treating da...

Martin Miles is set to join the fight for every heartbeat.

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University of Reading | Professor Angela Clerk

Heart failure caused by high blood pressure often results from structural changes in the heart, such as the build-up of scar tissue. This process is called fibrosis and can reduce the capacity of the heart to pump blood efficiently around t...