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Studying C5L2 – a potential new target for preventing fatty liver diseaseUniversity of Leicester | Dr Cordula Stover
People who are overweight or obese are more likely to develop a range of health problems, including a build-up of fat in the liver – called fatty liver disease – which can lead on to serious liver damage. Fatty liver disease can contribute ...
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Harnessing the immune system to help hearts repair and avoid transplant rejectionQueen Mary, University of London | Dr Suchita Nadkarni
Dr Suchita Nadkarni from Queen Mary University of London is studying how interactions between the body’s immune system and blood vessels can influence the outcome of certain heart and circulatory diseases and procedures, such as heart attac...
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Finding a weakness in how bacteria grow on medical devices, to prevent infectionUniversity of York | Dr Michael Plevin
Advances in research and technology have led to the development of a wide range of medical devices used to treat heart disease. Devices like pacemakers, prosthetic heart valves and stents may be placed inside patients’ bodies for year...
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Understanding kugeln, a new avenue of research in stroke and dementiaUniversity of Sheffield | Professor Tim Chico
Sheffield researchers are investigating an intriguing phenomenon they discovered in blood vessels in the brain. Understanding how blood vessels develop in the brain may help us to find ways to tackle diseases including stroke and dementi...
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Improving patient outcome after transcatheter aortic valve replacement surgery for aortic stenosisUniversity College London | Professor Gaetano Burriesci
Dr Gaetano Burriesci has been awarded a PhD studentship to work out how to improve patient outcome following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), an operation where a new valve is manoeuvred up the femoral artery and inserted ins...
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Why are people from India more prone to heart disease?University of Southampton | Professor Caroline Fall
Professor Caroline Fall is investigating why people from the Indian sub-continent are more prone to heart disease and diabetes than people from Europe. By studying young adults in New Delhi and Vellore in India, Professor Fall and her t...
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Can a drug given in high risk pregnancy protect the unborn child from heart disease in later life?University of Cambridge | Professor Dino Giussani
Heart and circulatory disease is the UK’s biggest killer. Research to find new ways to prevent it at an early stage could make a huge difference to society. As well as risk factors such as smoking and obesity, scientists have noted that the...
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Finding ways of testing new drugs for pulmonary hypertensionImperial College London | Professor Lan Zhao
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries carrying blood to the lungs, causing damage to the right side of the heart and heart failure. It is caused by an overgrowth of cells in the blood vessel...
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Helping stem cells stay in the injured heart to repair damageUniversity of Birmingham | Dr Neena Kalia
In heart failure, the heart cannot pump blood around the body as well as it used to and people become extremely tired and short of breath. Heart failure usually occurs after the heart muscle becomes damaged from a heart attack and, in sever...
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New approaches to treat pulmonary arterial hypertensionUniversity of Cambridge | Professor Nicholas Morrell
BHF Professor Nick Morrell at the University of Cambridge has been awarded a grant to discover if increasing levels of bone morphogenetic protein receptor type 2 (BMPR2), could be a new way to treat Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Th...