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King's College London | Professor Ajay Shah

BHF Professor Ajay Shah and his team at Kings College London are studying whether manipulating a stress pathway in the mitochondria of heart muscle cells could help treat heart disease. Mitochondria are ‘powerhouses’ within cells that gene...

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University of Birmingham | Dr Alexander Brill

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a blood clot that develops within a deep vein in the body, usually in the leg. Large cells found close to blood vessels called mast cells (MCs) are known to be important in DVT, but it is not known what trigger...

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University of Cambridge | Dr Thomas Krieg

Dr Thomas Krieg and his team at the University of Cambridge are testing whether a drug that they have developed protects cells from being damaged by high glucose levels in diabetes. People with diabetes often have high blood sugar peaks...

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University of Bristol | Professor Sarah Jane George

Professor Sarah George and colleagues from the University of Bristol have been awarded a 3-year grant to determine how to reduce the thickening of vein grafts by using a certain type of protein in the graft. Bypass graft procedures are ...