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RESEARCH

University of Leicester | Professor G Andre Ng

Heart attack results in heart failure which is a common condition associated with premature death, often due to heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmias). It is thought that after a heart attack the nerves that control the heart beat (the aut...

Heart Failure Heart Attack Exercise Heart health information in Romanian BHF

RESEARCH

University of Leeds | Dr Neil Turner

Dr Neil Turner and colleagues from the University of Leeds are working out if special heart cells called cardiac fibroblasts can sense cell damage in the heart, and if we can alter how they respond to improve heart repair after injury. A h...

Stroke research has been boosted by a half a million-pound investment in data-driven approaches to tackle the condition, which strikes one person every five minutes in the UK.

Read about unconscious bias women face at every stage of their heart disease journey and our appeal to the Welsh government

RESEARCH

University of Oxford | Professor Charalambos Antoniades

Liraglutide is a medicine that’s used to help control blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. However, a recent study revealed that Liraglutide also cuts the risk of heart attacks in diabetic people. A heart attack occurs when fatty p...

A coroner’s report has concluded that a heart condition called dilated cardiomyopathy and heart inflammation known as myocarditis may have contributed to the death of George Michael.

Our research has helped find ways to predict which people are at higher risk of heart attacks, and could lead to new treatments.

EVENT

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12 - 13 September 2026

Location

London to Henley-on-Thames

Take on the Thames Path Ultra Challenge and raise funds for our life saving research.

Professor Barbara Casadei, a BHF Professor at the BHF Centre of Research Excellence, University of Oxford, has received the 2022 Louis and Artur Lucian Award in recognition of her pioneering research into atrial fibrillation (AF).