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University of Manchester | Dr Paul Brownbill

Women with high blood pressure before or during pregnancy need to take blood pressure-lowering medicines throughout pregnancy. These medicines enter the placenta’s circulation – an organ that transfers oxygen and nutrients from the mother’s...

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Newcastle University | Dr Simon Bamforth

Supervised by Dr Simon Bamforth, this PhD student is studying the genetics behind congenital diseases that affect the aortic arch, a major blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart. Every year babies are born with aortic arch arter...

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St George's, University of London | Dr Pia Ostergaard

Supervised by Dr Pia Ostergaard, this PhD student is studying how genetic faults can lead to primary lymphoedema, a lifelong, often disabling condition affecting the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is a network of vessels that car...

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University of East Anglia | Dr Stephen Robinson

Dr Stephen Robinson studies how cells that form the inner lining of blood vessels, endothelial cells, interact with their environment. This process may affect how they are involved in angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels. Angiog...

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University of Leicester | Professor Nicholas Brindle

Damage to blood vessels can cause a number of serious conditions including coronary heart disease and stroke. The body normally produces a protein called Ang1 that binds to the cells lining our blood vessels to keep them healthy. In several...

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Imperial College London | Professor Cesare M N Terracciano

There are two types of cell in the heart, cells that contract to make it beat (myocytes) and cells that don't contract, but provide support for the myocytes (fibroblasts). These researchers at Imperial College London propose that fibroblast...

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University of Glasgow | Professor Colin Berry

Professor Colin Berry and colleagues at the University of Glasgow have been awarded a grant to develop new computer tools that will provide detailed information on heart pump function revealed by magnetic resonance imaging scans in hours ra...

The ‘fat but fit’ paradox – where some people who are overweight have a seemingly healthy metabolism – may be explained by a good blood supply to their fat cells, according to new research we funded. The findings suggest that encouraging the growth of new blood vessels in fat could offer some protection against heart attacks and strokes.

Joan Willett, a double heart attack survivor from Hastings who reached 108-years-old, passed away peacefully on Friday (29th November 2024).

Scientists at the University of Bristol are to study how stopping Porcupine – a protein named after the spiky rodent - could improve heart surgery.