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Thanks to 60 years of public support, we’ve become a global leader in funding heart and circulatory disease research, which has helped to improve and save millions of lives. But as the world responds to a pandemic on a scale unseen for a century, we’re having to work harder than ever to protect our life saving work while playing our part in fighting coronavirus (Covid-19).

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University of Oxford | Professor Charles Redwood

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an inherited disease of the heart muscle. It’s generally caused by genetic faults affecting the filaments that contract each muscle cell to create the heart’s pumping action. Professor Charles Redwood an...

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

British Heart Foundation is partnering with Omaze for their latest Million Pound House Draw. The money raised will power lifesaving research into heart and circulatory diseases that helps us to keep more families together for longer.

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.