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BHF pays tribute to Professor Desmond Julian, our former Medical Director and a pioneer in heart attack care.

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University of Bristol | Dr Emma Hart

Dr Emma Hart is supervising a PhD student who is investigating gender-related differences in high blood pressure. In the past, it was thought that men were more at risk of high blood pressure. But evidence shows that incidence of high blood...

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Imperial College London | Dr Zachary Whinnett

People with abnormal heart rhythms are sometimes treated with a method called ‘pacing’ which uses small electrical pulses to reset their heartbeat. Scientists have recently discovered a new method for resetting the heartbeat called His-paci...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Nicholas Morrell

Pulmonary arterial hypertension– high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs, is a debilitating condition. New methods to prevent and treat this condition are urgently needed. Understanding the genetic and molecular causes is central t...

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University of Glasgow | Professor Sandosh Padmanabhan

Professor Sandosh Padmanabhan and colleagues at the University of Glasgow are studying new ways to treat people with uncontrolled hypertension, or high blood pressure. Nearly half of those treated with current blood pressure lowering drugs ...

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Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Panos Deloukas

Professor Panos Deloukas and his team at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry are carrying out very large genetic studies called genome-wide association studies (GWAS). They are working out how variations in our genes contr...

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Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Timothy Warner

Professor Timothy Warner is studying why some people with heart and circulatory conditions do not respond well to anti-clotting drugs that protect them from heart attacks and strokes. Atherosclerosis, when arteries become ‘furred up’ wit...

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University of Nottingham | Professor Chris Denning

Professor Chris Denning and colleagues at the University of Nottingham will use stem cells to investigate how to treat a genetic condition that often leads to death from abnormal heart rhythms, known as myotonic dystrophy. They will take sk...