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University of Glasgow | Professor Jesse Dawson

Stroke causes more than 41,000 deaths in the UK each year. There are around 152,000 strokes in the UK each year and nearly 1.2 million people living in the UK have had a stroke. These people are at high risk of another stroke, and also of a...

In 2018, Matt Pohlson, CEO of Omaze – one of BHF’s charity partners – began to experience pain and swelling in his stomach. This extreme physical stress triggered a heart condition called takotsubo cardiomyopathy, which left him fighting for his life.

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University of Leeds | Dr Erica Dall Armellina

The BHF has awarded an Intermediate Clinical Research Fellowship to Dr Erica Dall Armellina from the University of Oxford to launch an imaging programme which will use innovative techniques to look at injury to heart muscle in patients who ...

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University College London | Professor Sasiwarang Goya Wannamethee

This is the next instalment of a vital four-decade study of heart health in British men. Despite the fact that we have an ageing population, the elderly have been under-represented in studies of heart and circulatory diseases. This means w...

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Newcastle University | Professor Deborah Henderson

Sometimes, the aorta and pulmonary artery (the arteries that carry blood away from the heart to the lungs and the rest of the body) do not properly form in the foetus. Some of these malformations are life-threatening at birth whereas others...

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University of Manchester | Dr Xin Wang

Heart failure is a devastating condition which affects over half a million people in the UK, and there is currently no cure. Scientists are trying to find new ways to repair the damage to heart muscle using stem cells, or help the heart to ...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Richard Farndale

Professor Richard Farndale is working out how to replace heart muscle tissue that has been irreversibly damaged, for instance, after a heart attack. Replacing this lost heart muscle could save many lives. In this project, Professor Farnd...

A protein involved in the development of blood vessels in the womb could provide a promising target for new drugs to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), according to research funded by us published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

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University of Manchester | Professor Mark R Boyett

‘Heart block’ is when the electrical impulse that signals the heart to beat fails to pass from the top to the bottom of the heart. As a result, the chambers at the bottom of the heart (the ventricles) fail to pump blood to the lungs, brain ...