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What controls how heart muscle cells contract?Cardiff University | Dr Nia Thomas
Dr Nia Lowri Thomas and her team at Cardiff University are studying the processes that control how heart muscle cells contract during each heartbeat and what goes wrong in abnormal heart rhythms. For heart muscle cells to contract, calci...
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How heart valves become calcified in aortic stenosisUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor David Newby
Supervised by BHF Professor David Newby, this Clinical Research Training Fellow is working out if a drug used to treat osteoporosis can also treat aortic stenosis. Blood leaves the heart through a large artery called the aorta and flows ...
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A new method to detect heart tissue that causes atrial fibrillationImperial College London | Professor Prapa Kanagaratnam
Supervised by Dr Prapa Kanagaratnam, a Clinical Research Training Fellow is testing whether a new method they have developed to detect areas in the heart that cause atrial fibrillation is accurate and that it identifies the correct areas of...
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How do platelet surface receptors ‘ITAM’ regulate function in health and disease?University of Birmingham | Professor Stephen P Watson
BHF Professor Stephen Watson from the University of Birmingham has been awarded a five year grant totalling almost £1.5million to look at the effects of tiny cells called platelets in our circulation. We know that platelets ‘plug’ a site of...
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Investigating how bad cholesterol is removed from the bodyUniversity College London | Dr Emmanuel Boucrot
When the levels of LDL (‘bad cholesterol’) are raised in the blood, our chances of developing coronary heart disease increase. Statin drugs lower cholesterol in the body by blocking its production in the liver. However, in response to this ...
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Shape changing platelet researchUniversity of Hull | Dr Simon Calaminus
Supervised by Dr Simon Calaminus, this PhD student is studying what controls platelets – small cells in the blood that clump together at sites of injury to form a plug to prevent further blood loss. Platelets are not normally activated ...
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Can the genetic code reveal why some people develop rheumatic heart disease?University of Oxford | Dr Thomas Parks
Rheumatic fever is a condition that is common in the developing world. It is caused by infection with a bacterium called group A streptococcus. Sometimes children and young adults who have had rheumatic fever go on to develop rheumatic hear...
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How does nitric oxide control the growth of new blood vessels in the eye?Queen's University Belfast | Dr Denise M McDonald
Dr Denise McDonald and Dr Anthony Collins from Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, are investigating what controls growth of new blood vessels in the retina of the eye. Damage to these intricate vessels stops oxygen reaching th...
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Predicting graft success or failure in coronary bypass surgeryUniversity of Oxford | Professor Charalambos Antoniades
Dr Charalambos Antoniades and colleagues from the University of Oxford have been awarded a 3-year grant of £258,000 to help address the very important question of why coronary bypass surgery may fail after just a few months. This surgery is...
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Growing new heart muscle to help heart attack patientsUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Sanjay Sinha
Regenerative medicine is an area of research that has the potential to revolutionise the care of patients with heart and circulatory disease, especially after life-threatening events such as a heart attack. After a heart attack, any damage ...