British Heart Foundation Leicester Centre of Research Excellence

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has awarded £3 million to the University of Leicester to support its world-class cardiovascular disease research over the next five years. This funding award comes from the charity’s highly competitive Research Excellence Awards Scheme.

The University of Leicester has pledged to match the award from the BHF, with additional funding from the University Hospitals of Leicester, taking the total investment in cardiovascular disease research in Leicester to around £7 million.

Funding will expand on the fantastic work being done here at Leicester, and support ground-breaking studies into the causes of common and rare cardiovascular diseases, as well as refining appropriate treatments and interventions.

A major focus of the award will be to raise the next generation of talented cardiovascular researchers and advance cutting-edge science to benefit our patients. We will build a collaborative community that brings researchers working across different disease areas and non-medical disciplines to drive forward lifesaving breakthroughs.