Our heart research

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 Fighting for the future

The future of heart research

We give money to fund the very best science and scientists in the UK, the most promising avenues of research, and the most innovative programmes.

Read on to find out more about where your money goes. 

Your donations help us fund so many projects. In the past we've made heart science history, and we will do again. So we've picked the best of the best of the projects we fund today to show you what we're doing with your money. 

The science

Where?

How much?
How twins could help us find heart risk genes London £100,000

What happens when blood vessels get out of control?

 Northumberland £105,000
Half a million volunteers make heart research history Oxford £1,000,000
Investigating why diabetes and heart disease are linked Bristol £199,000
Helping cells cope when there’s not enough oxygen Cardiff £190,000
In the mind: how can we control blood pressure? Bristol £900,000
Helping babies born with heart defects Newcastle £150,000
Investigating a blood vessel damaging protein Dundee £100,000
Preventing type 2 diabetes Leeds £250,000
The other fish that can regenerate its heart London £300,000
A new drug to tackle heart disease? Essex, Birmingham & Warwick £175,000

Why do firefighters get more heart disease?

 Edinburgh £187,000