New heart disease drug to be made available to NHS patients through ground-breaking collaboration
14 January 2020
Up to 30,000 lives could be saved over the next decade thanks to a proposed pioneering government collaboration with pharmaceutical company Novartis to tackle heart disease – a leading cause of death in the UK.
BHF Associate Medical Director awarded MBE in New Year Honours list
9 January 2020
Professor Jeremy Pearson, the BHF’s longest serving Associate Medical Director, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours list for services to medical research.
New target identified to help prevent dangerous heart rhythms after heart attack
8 January 2020
For many years, we have been using beta-blockers to neutralise a specific stress hormone and prevent dangerous heart rhythms following a heart attack. However, a new study led by Associate Professor Neil Herring and published in the European Heart Journal has uncovered evidence for an additional stress hormone acting as a key trigger for dangerous heart rhythms that is not currently targeted by these drugs.
BHF appoints Dr Charmaine Griffiths as new Chief Executive
13 November 2019
Dr Charmaine Griffiths will be the new Chief Executive of the BHF from February 2020.
Manuela Zaccolo honoured by the Royal Society of Biology
21 October 2019
Congratulations are in order to Professor Manuela Zaccolo on being elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.
Oxford BHF CRE Annual Symposium 2019
2 October 2019
Over 200 cardiovascular researchers attend science filled day in Oxford
RDM researchers make a splash at European Society of Cardiology conference
4 September 2019
Researchers shortlisted for Young Investigator Award, with three wins
New AI technology for advanced heart attack predictions
4 September 2019
Researchers develop a heart ‘fingerprint’ to tailor personalised treatments.
RDM team wins 2018 Hypertension Top Paper award
19 August 2019
Award from the journal Hypertension recognises publication as the top paper in its category of basic science.
RDM image is supporters favourite in BHF image competition
15 August 2019
CRE Public Engagement Research
An image from Radcliffe Department of Medicine researchers has been voted the supporters favourite in the annual British Heart Foundation 'Reflection of Research' image competition.
Richard Tyser awarded runner-up position in BHF image competition
14 August 2019
CRE Public Engagement Research
This year's "Reflections of Research" competition, run by the British Heart Foundation, selects "The Forming Heart" by Dr Richard Tyser as the Judge's runner-up
Potential strategy identified to improve blood vessel growth after heart attack
22 July 2019
A collaborative paper from the De Val and Smart Groups has established multiple regulatory pathways responsible for the formation of blood vessels in the developing heart. In doing so they have identified a crucial pathway that is repressed in the adult heart after injury, which may hold the key to a new and improved strategy for repair.
New approach to reducing damage after a heart attack
15 July 2019
Researchers in the Medical Sciences Division have established a key cause of micro blood vessels constricting during surgery to reopen a blocked artery, and identified a potential therapeutic target to block the mechanism behind it.
New approach to reducing damage after a heart attack
12 July 2019
During the emergency procedure used to reopen the blocked artery causing a heart attack, smaller "micro" blood vessels can remain constricted causing significant damage. A new study led by Associate Professor Neil Herring and published in the European Heart Journal has established a key cause behind this constriction and identified a potential therapeutic target to block the mechanism behind it.
Iron deficiency linked with cardiovascular disease
3 June 2019
A new discovery on how iron deficiency affects the vasculature of the lung could hold the key to improving treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension.