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Funding research is a cornerstone of the American Heart Association’s lifesaving mission - a pillar of our foundation and a key to our future. Since 1949, the AHA has made significant annual investments in research that has led to breakthroughs in cardiovascular and stroke discovery, translation, and clinical application through more than 50,850 funded projects. At our core are 12 Essential Elements that guide the AHA's research vision. This year's centennial anniversary allowed us to reach an all-time high in annual research funding.
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Global Cardiovascular Research Funders Forum (GCRFF) - International Research Challenge on Women’s Cardiovascular Health
The AHA is a member of the Global Cardiovascular Research Funders Forum (GCRFF), a partnership of 12 research funding organizations across nine countries. GCRFF has launched the International Research Challenge on Women's Cardiovascular Health, an international, multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary research network grant of up to US $10 million over 5 years. This first-of-its-kind research funding opportunity will drive transformative research and address urgent knowledge gaps in women’s cardiovascular health and build capacity at the international level.
Required pre-proposals are due by Wednesday, January 15, 2025. See award details.
Research News
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New pediatric heart transplantation research grants
Scientific researchers in Missouri and Virginia have been awarded nearly $1.4 million each in grants to study ways to extend the life expectancy and improve the quality of life for children with a transplanted heart. These two research awards mark the latest round of funding for a joint $3 million scientific research initiative between the American Heart Association, celebrating 100 years of lifesaving service as the world’s leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health for all, and Enduring Hearts, the only non-profit organization solely dedicated to funding pediatric heart transplant research. -
SFRN Inflammation Research Awards
Research teams from Northwestern University Chicago Campus, University of Michigan and University of Pittsburgh will lead a $15 million project dedicated to studying inflammation’s role in cardiac and brain diseases. The American Heart Association’s Strategically Focused Research Network (SFRN) on Inflammation in Cardiac and Neurovascular Disease aims to better understand the body’s response to inflammation and crosstalk between the heart and brain, as well as how to prevent or treat inflammation-driven cardiovascular diseases. -
New research funding awarded to assess the role of race in predicting heart disease
People with heart disease may receive different care because of how race is interpreted in health risk calculators and other tools that help clinicians make treatment decisions. The American Heart Association, a global force for healthier lives for all celebrating 100 years of lifesaving service, awarded four new grants this month to support scientific research that will evaluate the use of race in predicting heart disease risk and in turn help develop tools that are free of bias.
The newly funded principal investigators join six previous awardees who are part of a two-year scientific research strategy(link opens in new window) funded by a grant from the Doris Duke Foundation to study the complex issue of how race and ethnicity factor into clinical care algorithms and risk prediction tools. The grants are $50,000 each.
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More than half million dollars in research grants awarded for CHD
Five promising scientific researchers will advance their work to better understand and treat the most common birth defect in the U.S., congenital heart defects (CHDs), thanks to joint financial support from the American Heart Association and The Children’s Heart Foundation's Congenital Heart Defect Research Awards program. -
Trends in Current Electronic Cigarette Use Among Youths
This study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open, online Feb. 5, 2024. The research was funded in part by the American Heart Association, through the Association's Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science.
Funding Announcements
- Career Development Award - due Dec. 5, 2024
- Innovative Project Award - due Dec. 5, 2024
- Ralph L. Sacco Scholars Program - due Jan. 30, 2025
- International Visiting Professorship Award - due Feb. 4, 2025
- Implementation Science Award - due Feb. 5, 2025
- Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Science - due Feb. 6, 2025
- Transformational Project Award - due Feb. 13, 2025
Get With The Guidelines®
This tool is a hospital-based quality improvement program designed to close the treatment gap in cardiovascular disease, stroke, and resuscitation. It includes modules in coronary artery disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, stroke and resuscitation. Each program provides physicians and healthcare providers with materials, information and tools based on relevant evidence-based guidelines.
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