British Heart Foundation (BHF): NGO against COVID-19 ^{Funding Support}

Entity: British Heart Foundation (BHF)
Category: Non-Governmental
Description: The British Heart Foundation is a charity organisation in the United Kingdom. It funds research to beat heartbreak from heart and circulatory diseases and their risk factors.

Project: British Heart Foundation, GB and other funders - NIHR-BHF cardiovascular partnership covid-19 research.

Summary: The British Heart Foundation and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) invites applications for their Covid-19 research call. This seeks proposals from the cardiovascular research community for Covid-19 flagship projects. Projects should address key questions such as:

The nature and importance of cardiovascular complications in Covid-19 infection, and how they could be prevented;

- Understanding why patients with heart and circulatory diseases are at greater risk of adverse outcomes;

- The short and longer-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic for people with heart and circulatory diseases;

- Mechanistic insights into individual responses to the Covid-19 infection, its effect on the function of the heart and the circulatory system.