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BHF Centre of Excellence's First Career Development Fellow

12 January 2015

Dr Mattia Frontini has been appointed as the first Career Development Fellow of the BHF Cambridge Centre of Excellence . The Centre offers up to four clinical/non-clinical 2-year Fellowships with salaries and consumables budget to allow exceptional candidates to develop their research ideas. The purpose of the Fellowships...

Minimising tissue damage after heart attack or stroke

17 November 2014

Cambridge scientists have identified a novel way to prevent tissue damage following a heart attack or stroke. Dr Thomas Krieg , Dr Michael Murphy , Victoria Pell , and others have discovered that the tissue damage is caused by a build-up of a chemical called succinate after a blood clot is dislodged and blood flows back...

Losmapimod Phase III Clinical Trial Announced by GSK

29 August 2014

Following years of research by Dr Joseph Cheriyan , Prof Ian Wilkinson , Dr James Rudd , and many others, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced a new Phase III clinical trial - LATITUDE-TIMI 60 - to test a new losmapimod drug in more than 25,000 patients with acute coronary syndrome. More information about the contribution...

BHF Centre of Excellence's First Clinical Research Fellow

27 June 2014

The BHF Cambridge Centre of Excellence has appointed Miss Clare Burdett as their first Clinical Research Training Fellow. The Centre offers up to two 12-month Fellowships each year with salaries and consumables budget to allow exceptional candidates to focus on their research ideas full-time. The purpose of the Fellowships...

Papworth Hospital move to Cambridge approved

7 May 2014

Papworth Hospital's move to Cambridge Biomedical Campus has now been approved by HM Treasury, following approval by the Department of Health in October 2013. Construction work for the new hospital buildings is expected to start in 2015 and be completed by end of 2017. Papworth Hospital is one of the UK’s largest...

BHF Cambridge Centre for Cardiovascular Research Excellence awarded £3M

15 April 2014

The British Heart Foundation supports six UK universities as BHF Centres of Research Excellence . As part of this strategy, Cambridge has been awarded £3,000,000 for 2014-2019. The BHF Cambridge Centre of Research Excellence focuses on unanswered questions in atherothrombosis through inter-disciplinary collaborations...

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