Current opportunities

100,000 Genome Project

Cardiomyopathy runs in families and is caused by many different genetic mutations on many different genes.

Knowing which mutation is causing your cardiomyopathy can help in several ways – it can help you find out which other family members are at risk, may sometimes affect your treatment , and may make it possible for you to use an IVF technique to avoid having children who are affected.

For those who haven't had a genetic diagnosis and who don't know which mutation is causing their cardiomyopathy, a very large genetic project – the 100,000 Genome Project – is looking for more disease-causing gene mutations in people affected by diseases like cardiomyopathy and cancer.

Royal Brompton Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit

The NIHR Royal Brompton Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit is currently looking for patients with dilated cardiomyopathy to undergo a heart MRI scan as part of an ethics approved research study.

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