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Heart Foundation funded research is investigating the benefits of a newly developed pacemaker that could potentially reverse the decline of failing hearts.

Senior Research Fellow Dr Anna Pilbrow has been awarded the Heart Foundation’s inaugural Foundation100 Fellowship. Her two-year research project will investigate the use of DNA and genetics to identify people at risk of heart attacks and heart failure.

A heart attack treatment that could increase longevity and quality of life for New Zealanders with heart disease is the focus of new Heart Foundation funded research.

A pacemaker that mimics the hearts of elite athletes, a simple blood test to predict imminent heart attacks, and ‘living drugs’ to regenerate damaged heart tissue, are just three of a host of research projects awarded funding, the Heart Foundation announced today.

New research with the aim of improving heart health for Māori is among a number of research grants awarded by the Heart Foundation announced today.

The Heart Foundation today announced $4.2 million dollars of funding for heart research and specialist training for New Zealand cardiologists, bringing the total awarded by the charity since its formation in 1968, to more than $78 million dollars.

The Heart Foundation has today announced funding for a kaupapa Māori action research project to support Māori communities to lead nutrition initiatives to support healthy hearts.

Premature babies and their mothers are at higher risk of developing heart disease, but new research could change New Zealand’s national guidelines for cardiovascular screening for mothers and babies.

The Heart Foundation is proud to support leaders across all areas of medicine in Aotearoa, such as Waikato Hospital staff nurse Edel Schick, whose work will focus on patient education and heart disease prevention at a grass-roots level in the community.

Dr Moritz Lassé, Research Fellow with the Christchurch Heart Institute, a University of Otago Research Centre, has been awarded a Heart Foundation small project grant to help pick up kidney damage after heart failure.

Research into the quality of carbohydrates on our supermarket shelves aims to give New Zealanders clear advice on what foods to enjoy most.

Work towards a vaccine to stop rheumatic fever is “looking more promising”, says Heart Foundation Fellow Dr Jacelyn Loh.