We invest over £100 every minute of every day on research to fight heart disease.
For nearly half a century our pioneering scientists have contributed to vital advances in prevention, diagnosis and care that have saved and improved the quality of lives of thousands of people across the UK and the world.
Read about our past achievements plus more about a selection of our current 1200 pioneering research projects.
We are currently funding more than 1200 pioneering research projects around the UK.
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We’ve supported important innovations in patient care during heart disease surgery for several decades.
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Vital, life-saving BHF research has pushed the boundaries of our understanding of genetics.
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BHF- funded scientists played a vital role in finding how to reduce risk of heart attack or stroke from too much cholesterol.
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Ground-breaking BHF-funded research has contributed to advances enabling thousands of patients to benefit from a pacemaker.
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Discoveries by BHF scientists have helped save thousands of lives across the country.
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Until recently, doctors were helpless in the battle against heart failure. Pioneering BHF research helped change that.
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Ground-breaking research by BHF scientists has helped to pinpoint people at risk and prevent tragic deaths.
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BHF research has played its part in medical advances so that today, nearly nine out of ten of these babies will grow up to be adults.
More about Congenital Heart Disease
The BHF Family Heart Study has helped unravel how our genetic inheritance can predispose some people to coronary heart disease.
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