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University of Manchester | Dr Xin Wang

Manchester-based researchers are searching for ways to boost a natural heart-protecting protein to prevent or halt heart failure. Heart failure is a devastating condition, affecting hundreds of thousands of people in the UK. In heart fail...

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University of Edinburgh | Professor Nicholas Hastie

Professor Nicholas Hastie is studying cells in the epicardium, the outside layer of the heart, which plays a crucial role during heart development in the embryo and in repairing the adult heart. A gene called Wilms’ tumour 1, or Wt1, is i...

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University of Oxford | Dr Oliver Rider

Although obesity increases the chance of developing heart failure, when patients have heart failure they may live longer if they are obese. This unexpected finding is termed the 'obesity paradox' and the reasons behind it are currently unkn...

BHF-funded researchers have pioneered a new way to do heart bypass surgery, keeping the heart beating during the procedure.

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University of Aberdeen | Professor Stefan Hoppler

As the heart develops, stem cells are directed to become specialised heart cells by messages from surrounding cells. The heart’s developmental programming depends on a complex network of signals and actions between cells and proteins in the...

BHF Professor of Psychology answers common questions about how having a heart attack or other heart event can affect people emotionally. Find out more.

Find out what these people have learned from living with a heart condition and what tips they’d give to others

Findings and patient outcomes from the BHF House of Care programme showing how the approach benefited patient care.