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Date

1-31 May 2025

Location

Anywhere

Walk 31 miles in the month of May for BHF. A virtual challenge you can choose to take part in wherever suits you.

Before you apply for a research grant from the British Heart Foundation, you'll need to know our grant types and read through the relevant grant guidelines. Find out how to apply for a BHF research grant.

The first drug treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms could be on the horizon after research we part funded found that cholesterol lowering drugs might help to slow their growth.

Switching off a heart muscle protein could provide a new way for drugs to combat heart failure in people who’ve had a heart attack, according to research we funded and published in the journal Nature.

Looking for comfort food, but no time to cook? We present top tips for healthy meals in a hurry. Find out more.

We are appealing for volunteers to donate the gift of time as nationwide shortage threatens to impact funding for life saving research.

RESEARCH

University of Bristol | Dr Jason L Johnson

Dr Jason Johnson is supervising a PhD student who will develop a new model to study aortic aneurysm, when the wall of the main blood vessel leaving the heart, the aorta, swells and bulges like a balloon. Dr Johnson wants to develop a resear...

RESEARCH

University of Leeds | Dr Andrew Smith

When the heart becomes damaged – for example, after a heart attack – this reduces the blood supply to the muscle cells which contract to pump blood around the body. Over time, this reduces the heart’s ability to pump. This is known as heart...

The UK Government’s inaugural Men’s Health Strategy for England was announced yesterday, on International Men’s Day 2025. The landmark strategy aims to help tackle health challenges faced by men and boys – including cardiovascular disease.

Terms and conditions for Heart Runners participants.