{"id":135973,"date":"2022-02-23T05:22:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/3-million-funding-for-research-into-technology-that-could-cure-heart-failure"},"modified":"2022-02-23T05:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T13:22:33","slug":"3-million-funding-for-research-into-technology-that-could-cure-heart-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/3-million-funding-for-research-into-technology-that-could-cure-heart-failure","title":{"rendered":"\u00a33 Million Funding For Research Into Technology That Could Cure Heart Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3-million-funding-for-research-into-technology-that-could-cure-heart-failure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eight cutting-edge heart failure projects are set to receive millions of pounds\u2019 worth of funding from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhf.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Heart Foundation (BHF)<\/a> this year, with the money raised, fittingly enough, by the London Marathon.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Longevity. Technology: Heart disease is the world\u2019s greatest killer, with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) taking an estimated 17.9 million lives each year [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/health-topics\/cardiovascular-diseases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1<\/a>]. With organs for transplant in short supply, the focus is turning to regenerative medicine \u2013 getting the heart to repair itself \u2013 and the BHF is planning to fund eight projects all aimed at finding ways to cure heart failure. Given that a picture paints a thousand words, BHF has made the smart move of showcasing this regenerative research through a stunning set of images that shows the Foundation\u2019s desire to not just ameliorate the symptoms of heart disease, or to extend patients\u2019 lives, but to cure heart disease by regenerating, regrowing or replacing damaged cells and tissues.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeart failure is a debilitating condition that dramatically affects the lives of almost 1 million people in the UK,\u201d commented Professor Metin Avkiran, BHF Associate Medical Director. \u201cBHF-funded research has spear-headed treatments to give people with heart failure longer, healthier lives, but there is no cure. Regenerative medicine offers that hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight cutting-edge heart failure projects are set to receive millions of pounds\u2019 worth of funding from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) this year, with the money raised, fittingly enough, by the London Marathon. Longevity. Technology: Heart disease is the world\u2019s greatest killer, with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) taking an estimated 17.9 million lives each year [1]. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}