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

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University of Leicester | Professor Gavin Murphy

Kidney injury after cardiac surgery affects over a quarter of heart operations, and increases the risk of other severe complications developing. BHF Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Gavin Murphy and colleagues at the University of Leicester, w...

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University of Bristol | Dr Anja G Teschemacher

Nearly one third of UK adults have high blood pressure (hypertension), which leaves people at up to three times the risk of heart disease and stroke. In many cases the cause of high blood pressure is not known, but it is clear that the cont...

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Imperial College London | Dr Joseph Boyle

In this Senior Clinical Research Fellowship, Dr Boyle will test whether a special type of immune cell, called a macrophage, can help to repair inflamed blood vessels in atherosclerosis, the condition that causes coronary heart disease. He w...

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 Edinburgh | Professor Nicholas Mills

Edinburgh researchers are striving to improve the detection and diagnosis of heart attack in men and women, and subsequent care afterwards. When the heart is damaged, a protein is released from heart cells. Tests to detect this protein, ...

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University of Leeds | Dr Sarah C Calaghan

Statins are medicines taken by millions of people in the UK as an effective way to lower their risk of having a heart attack or a stroke. However, some people who take statins develop a side-effect that causes muscle pain and weakness, part...

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Find out what procedures can improve aortic stenosis symptoms, and who may be offered them.

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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 ...