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BHF-NC3Rs PhD Studentships
BHF-NC3Rs PhD Studentships support cardiovascular research focused on the replacement, reduction and refinement of animal use.
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Bolstering the heart’s defences against chemotherapy and diabetesUniversity of Leeds | Professor Derek S Steele
In the cells of our body, day-to-day processes cause the creation of ‘reactive oxygen species’ (ROS) – toxic molecules that can cause damage to our cells. In the heart, excessive ROS production can cause dangerous irregular heart rhythms. ...
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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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Investigating a new way to prevent tissue remodelling in heart diseaseUniversity of Manchester | Dr Delvac Oceandy
Dr Delvac Oceandy and his team at the University of Manchester are studying if changing calcium levels in cells which help maintain tissue structure in many organs including the heart, called fibroblasts, could help to prevent tissues ‘remo...
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How variations in our DNA affect blood vessel smooth muscle cellsUniversity of Leicester | Professor Shu S Ye
Advances in technology have generated an avalanche of data about the genetics of health and disease. Leicester has been at the forefront of finding variations in a person’s genetic code that are linked to an increased risk of heart disease....
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Why does obesity cause inflammation and lead to heart disease?Queen Mary, University of London | Dr Maria Paula Longhi
Dr Paula Longhi and her team at Queen Mary, University of London are studying why people who are obese are at higher risk of developing heart and circulatory diseases, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure. White blood cells can become i...
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Preventing heart failure by protecting the protein MKK7University of Manchester | Dr Xin Wang
Manchester-based researchers are searching for ways to boost a natural heart-protecting protein to prevent or halt heart failure. Heart failure is a devastating condition, affecting hundreds of thousands of people in the UK. In heart fail...
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Studying how stem cells turn into heart muscle cells during developmentCardiff University | Dr Branko Latinkic
Dr Branko Latinkic and his team at the University of Cardiff are developing new ways to study heart development. We don’t fully understand how the heart muscle forms, and it is difficult to study heart development in mammals because emb...
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Studying the causes of heart muscle fibrillationImperial College London | Professor Nicholas Peters
Professor Nicholas Peters and colleagues at Imperial College London are studying fibrillation, a heart rhythm disorder where electrical current flows through the heart muscle in an uncoordinated and irregular way. He wants to identify the p...
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How a protein called prelamin A is involved in cardiomyopathy and ageingKing's College London | Professor Catherine Shanahan
Professor Catherine Shanahan and her team at King’s College London are studying a protein called prelamin A. This toxic protein can accumulate in heart muscle cells causing them to function less efficiently, and this can lead to heart failu...