Research funding across the UK
From Edinburgh to Cardiff, Belfast to London, we're supporting research projects as well as strategic investments including the Research Excellence and Accelerator Awards, Centres of Regenerative Medicine or the BHF Data Science Centre.
Use the interactive visualisations linked here to explore where we fund research projects, centres and staff in the UK.
- Our research funding across the UK
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We currently support over £430m of life saving research across 47 institutions in the UK to better understand, prevent, and treat heart and circulatory diseases.
- Our strategic research investments
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We fund research through a variety of mechanisms, including research centres and 4-year PhD programmes across UK universities.
- Our research workforce
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We support the work of over 1,200 research staff across the UK, including salaried research staff on BHF awards or award holders that are early career scientists through to BHF Professors.
Funding by condition
We're funding research to better understand, prevent and treat a broad range of heart and circulatory diseases.
Use the interactive visualisations linked here to explore the research we fund in a selection of heart and circulatory conditions.
- Current funding by condition
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We currently support over £430m of research projects across 47 institutions in the UK to better understand, prevent, and treat heart and circulatory diseases.
- Our latest research investment by condition
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In the 2023/24 financial year we awarded around £112m of research grants to better understand, prevent and treat heart and circulatory diseases.
Funding in clinical trials
Clinical trials provide crucial evidence that diagnostic tests or treatments are safe and effective. We fund clinical trials across a broad range of heart and circulatory conditions and their risk factors, such as diabetes and chronic kidney disease.
Use the interactive visualisations linked here to explore what types of clinical trials we are currently funding, either by type of research (prevention, diagnosis, treatment) or by condition.
- Clinical trials by type of research
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We fund clinical trials that aim to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart and circulatory conditions. We are currently supporting 46 clinical trials worth around £40m. They provide crucial evidence that diagnostic tests or treatments are safe and effective.
- Clinical trials by condition
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We fund clinical trials across a broad range of heart and circulatory conditions, as well as trials that aim to prevent or treat heart and circulatory diseases in conditions that increase their risk, such as diabetes and chronic kidney disease. We are currently supporting 46 clinical trials worth around £40m.