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.
Funding across the UK
Strategic research investments
Our interactive map shows funding of research centres and 4-year PhD programmes across UK universities.
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.
Funding by condition
Funding by condition
Our interactive visual map shows some of the £430m of research projects across 47 institutions in the UK to better understand, prevent and treat heart and circulatory diseases.
Latest investment by condition
In the 2023/24 financial year we awarded around £112m of research grants to better understand, prevent and treat heart and circulatory diseases.
Conditions
Browse a list of heart condition information pages produced by BHF’s specialised team of professors, researchers, cardiologists and nurses.
Funding in clinical trials
Clinical trials by type of research
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
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
From 3D printed hearts and internal defibrillators to regenerative medicine, we have helped improve and save the lives of many people with heart and circulatory diseases.