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The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt MP, left health off the agenda in today’s Autumn Statement - instead focusing on economic growth.

You can now donate items collected from your home to give to BHF charity shops

We have awarded over £900,000 to fund four ambitious projects at centres across the UK.

To support our bright young scientists towards completion of their PhD we are offering studentship extensions of up to six months depending on the year of study.

RESEARCH

University of Cambridge | Mr. Patrick Coughlin

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) occurs when blood vessels in the legs narrow, usually due to a build-up of fatty deposits in the blood vessel wall. This restricts blood flow and can eventually lead to gangrene and loss of the limb. Curr...

The BHF funds more than £100m of research every year, looking at conditions that affect every part of the body.

RESEARCH

University of Aberdeen | Professor Stefan Hoppler

As the heart develops, stem cells are directed to become specialised heart cells by messages from surrounding cells. The heart’s developmental programming depends on a complex network of signals and actions between cells and proteins in the...

Thanks to fundraising through our partnership with Royal Mail, the BHF's heart helpline is now free to call for the first time since the service was first made available over 20 years ago.

RESEARCH

University College London | Professor Alexander Gourine

The brain controls how our hearts work by sending commands via specialised nerves, which produce rapid changes in heartbeat rate and determine how hard the heart needs to work, such as during exercise. Dr Alexander Gourine at University ...

We have awarded funding to Belfast scientist Dr Karla O'Neill for research that will help to bring us a step closer to creating treatments that can restore the body’s ability to grow new blood vessels