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University College London | Dr Juan Pablo Kaski

This clinical PhD project supervised by Dr Juan Pablo Kaski, based at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, aims to improve how doctors identify children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who are at high risk of sudden cardiac death ...

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University of Edinburgh | Professor Andrew Howard Baker

£2.5m will establish our BHF Centre of Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, one of the world's leading institutions in heart research. Although the centre is officially based in Edinburgh, it involves collaboration between ...

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We've partnered with the British Cardiovascular Society to carry out a census of the cardiac workforce in England.

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University of Oxford | Professor Sarah De Val

Dr Sarah de Val and her colleagues at the University of Oxford are working out how new blood vessels grow during development and after a heart attack, to find clues on how to repair damaged heart muscle. After a heart attack, new blood ves...

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University College London | Professor Dr Aroon D Hingorani

A BHF-funded consortium bringing together top researchers from University College London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Edinburgh, and the University of Bristol is analysing blood samples for a huge range of ...

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University of Reading | Professor Jonathan Gibbins

Professor Jonathan Gibbins is studying how tiny blood cells called platelets involved in blood clotting are controlled. Platelets prevent the body from losing blood after injury by forming blood clots. While this is vital for survival, ...

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Queen's University Belfast | Professor David Grieve

In diseases where blood flow to tissues becomes reduced (ischaemia), new blood vessels grow – this is called ‘angiogenesis’. Ischaemic diseases such as those affecting the heart and limbs affect millions of people each year and are major ca...

We're delighted to announce that James Jopling is joining us as the new head of British Heart Foundation Scotland.

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