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Explore what research we fund and where

We fund research into many heart and circulatory diseases across the UK. Explore where we are funding lifesaving research and clinical trials through our interactive visualisations.

Research funding across the UK

From Edinburgh to Cardiff, Belfast to London, we're supporting groundbreaking cardiovascular research.

Use the interactive visualisations linked here to explore where we fund research projects, clinical trials and staff in the UK.

Current research funding across the UK

We currently support over £460m of life saving research across 46 institutions in the UK to better understand, prevent, and treat heart and circulatory diseases.

Clinical trials

We fund clinical trials that aim to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment across a 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 41 clinical trials worth around £36m.

Our research workforce

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.