Patients and staff are already benefitting from equipment funded by Barts Charity, including two MRI scanners at the Barts Heart Centre.
Our £10.2m funding focuses on the following areas:
- Barts Clinical Trials Unit – enabling the Centre to support an extensive portfolio of trials
- Medical devices – specialising in medical devices for heart patients, such as electrocardiogram (ECG) “jackets” for monitoring electrical activity in the heart
- Drug treatments – new research into the heart-protective properties of inorganic nitrates – what’s thought to be responsible for the beneficial effects of green leafy vegetables
- Genomic medicine – aiming to identify the genetic causes of rare cardiac abnormalities
- Patient-generated data – developing a major new resource to support crucial research
- Setting up the largest cardio-oncology service in the UK and one of the top 10 in the whole world.
Our funding has also led to the successful recruitment of several leading cardiologists and cardiovascular researchers. One of the team has set up a cardio-oncology network, now the largest cardio-oncology service in the UK, enabling collaborations and training of fellows.