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King's College London | Professor Catherine Shanahan

As we age, the smooth muscle cells that make up our blood vessels can start to calcify, becoming rigid like bone. The technical term for this phenomenon is vascular calcification. It can cause high blood pressure, heart attacks or strokes a...

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University of Sheffield | Dr Alfred Thompson

Dr Alfred Thompson has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright-BHF Scholar Award to spend one year working in Professor Marlene Rabinovitch’s world-leading pulmonary hypertension laboratory at Stanford University. Dr Thompson studies pulmonary...

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University of Birmingham | Dr Claudio Mauro

Cardiovascular metabolic diseases, including atherosclerosis (the process that underlies coronary heart disease), obesity and diabetes, are a leading cause of ill health. There is evidence to show that low grade inflammation is associated w...

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Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Dr Qingzhong Xiao

Dr Qingzhong Xiao is studying cells and proteins involved in restenosis – when arteries re-narrow after patients receive a procedure called a coronary angioplasty. Coronary angioplasty, when a balloon is used to open a narrowed or blocke...

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University of Bristol | Professor Paolo Madeddu

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a common circulatory problem where arteries become narrowed, reducing blood flow to the limbs. Over a quarter of people with critical limb ischemia (CLI), the most advanced form of PAD, are unsuitable for ...

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University of Oxford | Professor Susan Jebb

Professor Susan A Jebb from the University of Oxford wants to help people reduce their salt intake and reduce their risk of high blood pressure. She and her team are doing this through a two-pronged approach. First, they will interview peop...

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Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Andrew Tinker

The heart pumps blood round the body and the blood vessels supply oxygen to organs such as brain. This isn't a static system; it needs to be tuned in conditions where there is high demand for oxygen, such as during exercise, and at times wh...

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University of Edinburgh | Professor Andrew Howard Baker

BHF Professor Andrew Baker and his team at the University of Edinburgh want to develop innovative treatments that target abnormal blood vessel growth during heart and circulatory disease. Blood vessel remodelling is a common feature of ca...