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Research excellence at the University of GlasgowUniversity of Glasgow | Professor Rhian Touyz
The University of Glasgow has received nearly £3 million over the next five years to establish a BHF Centre of Research Excellence in Vascular Science and Medicine led by new BHF professor Rhian Touyz. In 2008, the BHF began a £34 millio...
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Developing new ways to predict which fatty arteries could cause a heart attackImperial College London | Dr Pettahandige de Silva
Dr Pettahandige de Silva and his colleagues at Imperial College London are looking for ways to detect which fatty build-ups in arteries supplying the heart are likely to cause heart attacks. Dr de Silva has developed a technique to enco...
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Understanding the mechanism of cell growth that leads to thickening of blood vesselsUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Helle F Jorgensen
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are part of the blood vessels wall. When they multiply more than they should, it leads to a thickening in the blood vessel . This occurs during atherosclerosis where fatty materials builds up in the lini...
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Harnessing artificial intelligence in cardiomyopathy diagnosisImperial College London | Dr Declan O'Regan
A multidisciplinary team of scientists is using the latest technology to help predict how cardiomyopathy will affect individual patients. Cardiomyopathy is a group of diseases affecting the heart muscle, which can lead to heart failure or ...
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How do our genes influence the aorta, the body’s main blood vessel?Imperial College London | Professor Stuart Cook
Supervised by Professor Stuart Cook, a Clinical Research Training Fellow is working out which genes determine the stiffness and size of the main blood vessel exiting the heart, the aorta. The dimensions and flexibility of this vessel can in...
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Targeting a key step in blood clotting, towards a new anticoagulant medicineUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Stephanie Jung
When we have a cut the body responds by forming a blood clot at the wound site. Platelets are small blood cells that prevent excessive bleeding when a blood vessel is injured, by clumping together and forming a blood clot. Blood clots are s...
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Cardiovascular Gene Ontology Annotation Initiative - Summarising gene function to better understand heart development and cardiovascular processesUniversity College London | Dr Ruth Lovering
New lab techniques can unravel the complexities of the heart and circulatory system much faster, by studying many processes or molecules in a single experiment. These ‘high-throughput’ techniques reveal a huge amount of extremely valuable i...
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Could extra salt in the diet help to prevent pre-eclampsia?University of Nottingham | Dr Hiten Mistry
BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow Dr Hiten Mistry is working out if salt intake influences development of pre-eclampsia, a condition affecting pregnant women and causing high blood pressure and protein in the urine. Pre-eclamps...
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Can stem cells in the heart of mice teach us about human heart repair?Imperial College London | Professor Michael Schneider
Unlike some other animals, like the zebrafish, the human heart cannot heal itself by replacing damaged heart cells with new heart muscle cells. Despite this, it is now known that the heart does contain stem cells – cells that are able to d...
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How do proteins called NADPH oxidases control platelets in blood clots?University of Exeter | Dr Giordano Pula
Dr Giordano Pula and his team are studying the blood clotting process, with the aim of finding new ways to prevent life threatening blood clots. Platelets are small circulating cells that are required for blood clotting. If they become u...