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Can an App help people reduce their blood pressure after stroke?

Oxford, University of | Richard McManus

People who have had a stroke or a ‘mini-stroke’ – known to doctors as a TIA - are at higher risk of a further stroke/TIA if their blood pressure is too high. Unfortunately, high blood pressure is common, and too often poorly controlled. Pre...

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The role of blood flow in blood vessel function, and its importance during diabetes

University of Strathclyde | Professor John G McCarron

Professor John McCarron and his colleagues at the University of Strathclyde are studying how blood vessels respond to blood flow, and why blood flow changes in people with diabetes. Changes in blood flow can cause blood vessels to contrac...

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Accelerator award at the University of Leicester

University of Leicester | Professor Gavin Murphy

BHF-funded research is behind many of the advances that are helping people with heart and circulatory diseases to live longer, better lives. By investing in research we are supporting scientists to make potentially life-saving discoveries, ...

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Do neutrophil microparticles contribute to atherosclerosis?

University of Sheffield | Dr Victoria Ridger

Atherosclerosis is a disease that causes the large blood vessels in our bodies to clog up because fatty plaques develop in the walls of arteries. Dr Victoria Ridger from the University of Sheffield is investigating whether tiny particles re...

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Can we assist a natural ‘master regulator’ of blood vessel health to treat heart disease?

Imperial College London | Professor Anna Randi

The cells that make up the innermost lining of our blood vessels are called ‘endothelial cells’. They actively influence all sorts of functions including how permeable the vessels are, how they grow, and the tendency for blood to clot withi...

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Studying the nanomechanics of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Queen Mary, University of London | Dr Arianna Fornili

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a common disease of the heart muscle and detailed knowledge of the mechanism of heart contraction is central to design new therapies. Contractions arise from the molecular motions of a motor protein, myosin II...

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Studying the role of zinc in blood clotting

University of St Andrews | Dr Alan Stewart

Supervised by Dr Alan Stewart, the PhD student on this project is studying how zinc is involved in blood clot formation and if zinc is important for why some heparin-based drugs do not work. There is a lot of evidence linking zinc to blo...

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Danger signals and dendritic cells in coronary heart disease

Queen Mary, University of London | Dr Maria Paula Longhi

In this Intermediate Research Fellowship, Dr Paula Longhi, working at Queen Mary, University of London, will investigate how dendritic cells of the immune system contribute to atherosclerosis, the disease that underlies coronary heart disea...