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King's College London | Professor Michael Marber

The enzyme p38, can be found in every cell in the body. It is part of our response to stress and we cannot live without it. But in a similar way to adrenaline and other stress hormones, p38 becomes very active in some diseases and causes da...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Nicholas Morrell

The University of Cambridge has received nearly £3 million over the next five years to establish a new interdisciplinary Centre for Cardiovascular Research led by BHF Professor Nick Morrel. In 2008 the BHF began a £34 million investment...

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University of Dundee | Professor Michael L J Ashford

Professor Michael Ashford is studying ways to prevent blood vessels becoming damaged in obesity and diabetes. The inner lining of blood vessels, the endothelium, is crucial to keep blood vessels healthy. Endothelial damage is strongly l...

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University of Edinburgh | Dr Richard Weller

Dr Richard Weller is working out if exposure to sunlight can help people reduce their blood pressure and risk of heart disease and stroke. We already know that too much sunlight can increase our risk of developing skin cancer, but there ...

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University of Manchester | Dr Xin Wang

Sudden cardiac death can happen as a result of electrical disturbances that cause abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias. Over half of people with heart failure die from an abnormal heart rhythm that causes a fatal cardiac arrest. The drugs...

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University College London | Dr Claudio Raimondi

Finding out how new blood vessels grow is important for developing treatments to restore blood flow in tissues that are starved of oxygen (ischaemic tissue). Neuropilin-1 (NRP1) is a protein in the endothelial cells that line the inside of...

There are few who don’t enjoy warming up by a fire in winter or sitting around a fire pit outside in the summer. Yet few people know that open fires and wood burners release pollutants into the air known as PM2.5, which can seriously damage your heart and circulatory health.

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University of Birmingham | Dr Alexander Brill

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a blood clot that develops within a deep vein in the body, usually in the leg. Large cells found close to blood vessels called mast cells (MCs) are known to be important in DVT, but it is not known what trigger...

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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...