Awards for strategic initiatives and infrastructure
- MRC e-health centres for health informatics research in the UK (linkage and analysis of e-health data across the UK), SP/11/2/29063. BHF awarded £1,000,000 towards a total grant of approximately £17.4m.
National Prevention Research Initiative - Phases I through IV. Three awards worth £3,250,000 were made by BHF.
UKCRC Joint Funders Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre Phases I and II, SP/14/5/31349. BHF awarded £175,000 towards a total grant of £905,000 over 3 years. - MRC Experimental Medicine (across Universities of Cambridge, Dundee and Imperial College London), SP/08/008/26402. BHF awarded £340,000 towards a total grant of £680,000 over 3 years.
- UKCRC Public Health Research Centres of Excellence Renewal. Two awards worth £4,000,000 were made by BHF.
2014/15: MRC Clinical Research Capital Initiative
- Professor Sven Plein, University of Leeds, SP/14/7/31351
Translational Hyperpolarised Magnetic Resonance. 5 years, £536,833. - Professor James Wild, University of Sheffield, SP/14/6/31350
POLARIS: Pulmonary, Lung and Respiratory Imaging Sheffield. BHF awarded £963,167 towards a total of £7,489,546 over 8 years.
2014/15: MRC Stratified Medicine Initiative
- Professor Philip Chowienczyk, King's College London, SP/14/8/31352
Ancestry and biological Informative Markers for stratification of HYpertension: The AIM HY study. BHF awarded £1,100,174 towards a total award of 3,361,721 over 5 years.
2010/11: MRC/BHF Strategic Development Grants in Translational Regenerative Medicine
- Professor Catherine Kielty, University of Manchester, SP/10/12/28711
Cell-matrix biology of the vascular progenitor cell niche. BHF awarded £250,000 towards a total award of £741,808 over 3 years. - Professor Roger Pedersen, University of Cambridge, SP/10/11/28710
Strategic development of stem cell-based therapies for vascular disease. BHF awarded £250,000 towards a total award of £741,808 over 3 years. - Professor Michael Schneider, Imperial College London, SP/10/003/28287
Strategic development Grant in Translational Regenerative Medicine. BHF awarded £500,000 towards a total award of £1,016,391 over 3 years.
Other awards
- 2018/19: Professor Nicoletta Bobola, University of Manchester, SP/18/12/34300. A cell atlas of the human outflow tract of the heart. BHF awarded £275,905 towards a total award of £459,841 over 2 years.
- 2017/18: Professor Peter Mortimer, St George's, University of London, RG/17/7/33217. Deep phenotyping to improve understanding of causal mechanisms and underlying gene mutations in primary lymphoedema and lymphatic malformations. BHF awarded £750,000 towards a total award of £2,018,702 over 5 years.
- 2014/15: Professor Nilesh Samani, University of Leicester, SP/15/4/31535. Telomere length measurement in UK Biobank: advancing understanding of biological ageing and age related diseases. BHF awarded £619,867 towards a total grant of £2,066,224 over 4 years.
- 2013/14: Professor John Danesh, University of Cambridge, RG/13/13/30194. Large-scale integrative studies of risk factors in coronary heart disease: from discovery to application. BHF awarded £2,209,162 towards a total award of over £4,000,000 over 5 years.
- 2011/12: Professor Andrew Howard Baker, University of Glasgow, SP/11/3/29215. Gene therapy for vein graft failure. BHF awarded £784,591 towards a total award of £3,138,364 over 6.5 years.
- 2008/09: Professor John Danesh, University of Cambridge, SP/09/002/27676. Study of the interplay of genetic, biochemical and lifestyle factors in coronary heart disease in 10,000 incident cases and 10,000 controls. BHF awarded £900,000 towards a total grant of £2,799,999 over 4 years.
- 2007/08: Professor David Newby, University of Edinburgh, SP/07/004/24096. Clinical Research Imaging Centre. BHF awarded £3,000,000 towards a total grant of £4,425,218.