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King's College London | Professor Bijan Modarai

Aneurysms (swellings) in the aorta, the body’s main blood vessel, are often treated with stents. Sometimes stents can block branches of blood vessels supplying blood to the spinal cord, and in 10% of these cases, this interruption in blood-...

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Imperial College London | Professor Dudley Pennell

In healthy hearts, the muscle cells are long and thin, and are tightly packed with their neighbours in an ordered pattern. This means that water molecules can travel more easily along the cells than across them. Professor Pennell and his te...

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University of Cambridge | Dr Stephanie Jung

Many types of heart and circulatory disease occur because of the build-up of dangerous ‘fatty’ plaques in the walls of blood vessels. During this process blood cells and fatty material become trapped in an area of the vessel wall. Some plaq...

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University of Bristol | Dr Christopher Dempsey

For the heart to pump blood around the body efficiently, electrical signals must travel through the chambers of the heart in an organised and rhythmic way. These signals are co-ordinated by proteins in heart cells called ion channels. A div...

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Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Federica Marelli Berg

The only way to cure severe heart failure is a heart transplant, but the transplant can fail if someone’s immune system rejects the new organ. Research that reveals more about how the immune system is involved in rejection could reveal new ...

In line with DORA and towards our goal of embedding a greater appreciation of the value of all research outputs, in January 2025 BHF is amending how we ask applicants to describe their track record in research funding applications.

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This year's British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) conference was held in person for the first time in two years since coronavirus struck the UK, and it was once again teeming with the latest breakthroughs in heart and circulatory research. Here's what we learnt.

Research highlights from this year's British Cardiovascular Society conference