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King's College London | Professor Kinya Otsu

In the healthy heart, muscle cells link together, forming regular structures that pull together to cause the heart to pump. In heart failure, some of these cells die; weakening the heart and making it work harder to get oxygen-rich blood to...

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University of Reading | Professor Angela Clerk

Several drugs to treat cancer are known to have long-term side effects on the heart. Among them are drugs that impact a series of proteins which talk to each other, called the ERK1/2 pathway. This pathway promotes cancer, but it also protec...

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Largest trial of its kind, involving two BHF Professors, shows patients having heart surgery do not benefit from doctors waiting for them to become severely anaemic before giving a blood transfusion.

BHF researchers are awarded and honoured at the 2023 Heart Hero Awards

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Imperial College London | Professor Prakash P Punjabi

The BHF Clinical Research Training Fellowship is providing three years of funding totalling over £200,000 to consultant surgeon Mr Prakash Punjabi and a team at Imperial College. Together they will investigate the use of stem cells to treat...

How much you can exercise is determined by messages sent between your heart and brain. Jenny Mitchell explains.

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University of Leeds | Professor Christopher Gale

Dr Chris Gale and colleagues at the University of Leeds are studying whether the systematic use of the GRACE scoring system could help doctors improve their treatment of people who have had a heart attack or unstable angina. People admit...

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University of Edinburgh | Professor David Newby

Supervised by BHF Professor David Newby, this Clinical Research Training Fellow is working out if a drug used to treat osteoporosis can also treat aortic stenosis. Blood leaves the heart through a large artery called the aorta and flows ...

Consultant Cardiologist, Professor Malcolm Walker, explains how chemo can affect your heart and what you can do to protect it.