Funded research:

• Irish Heart Foundation Grants
• Noel Hickey Bursary

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Irish Heart Foundation Grants
The Foundation is currently reviewing its research process and is therefore currently not advertising for new research applications. Details concerning new applications will be posted on our website later in 2010.

Current funded research projects:

•    ‘Choice of antihypertensive agent in newly diagnosed patients and in those patients not responding to therapy’

•    ‘Cardiac Angiogenesis: “Cell Based Bypass” of chronic vascular occlusions’

•    ‘Elevated heart rate as a cardiovascular risk factor in the general, post-myocardial infarction and stable coronary artery disease populations’

•    ‘The Effect of Sex Hormones on Lymphocyte, Adipose Tissue and Vascular Tissue Inflammation in Men with Obesity or Cardiovascular Disease’

•    ‘Heart Directed Targeting of microRNA Mimics using Liposome Microbubbles and Ultrasonic Delivery to Reduce Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy and the Onset of Heart Failure’

•    ‘Extending the limits of risk estimation: The SCORE II’ Project

•    ‘To characterise the molecular mechanism(s) underlying the bleeding risk associated with use of protamine sulphate following cardiac surgery.’

•    ‘The Dublin Carotid Atherosclerosis and Stroke Study (DUCASS)’.

•    ‘The role of myeloid cells that express CSF1 Receptor in the aetiology of coronary instent restenosis and the evolution of a therapeutic strategy’

•    ‘Use of the Coronary Heart Attack Ireland Registry (CHAIR) database for surveillance of Acute Coronary Syndromes’

•    ‘Knowledge of stroke warning signs and risk factors: a survey of Irish adults’

Please contact Clavin@irishheart.ie if you have any other queries.

Reports and Claims
MS Word Templates for currently funded projects are available for download here
Final Report Template
Progress Report Template
Quarterly Application for Research Funds

 

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Noel Hickey Bursary

Following the establishment of the Irish Heart Foundation in 1966, Prof Noel Hickey became its first Medical Director.  His drive, initiative and political skills helped to establish the Foundation as one of the major forces for the promotion of interest in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac problems in this country.  His research interests, teaching skills and generosity in giving of his time were appreciated by generations of post-graduate and under graduate medical students and nurses.

It is fitting that the Irish Heart Foundation, should honour his memory by the establishment of a number of bursaries to be awarded to young research workers in medicine and the allied health professions, to explore ideas and develop concepts which might not be funded from other sources.

New Applications – 2010

The Noel Hickey bursary which is supported by an educational grant from Pfizer is open to everybody including business and non-medical personnel, SPRs, Registrars, SHOs, NCHDs, GPs and nursing staff  who may have an original idea. Funds available are limited and are in the region of €5,000 - €15,000 on a once off payment. Research applications in the clinical, epidemiological and preventive fields are particularly welcomed.

Download application form and supporting document or email clavin@irishheart.ie
Closing date for receipt of completed application form is 5pm Friday 9th April 2010.

Current Noel Hickey Bursary funded research include:
•    Psychological factors in predicting children’s food choices: A developmental analysis’.

•    ‘Stroke survivor’s personal morbidity - a study exploring patients’ perceptions of their health status post stroke’

•    ‘The effects of eplerenone on markers of collagen turnover in diastolic heart failure’

•    ‘Standard and advanced Echo techniques to assess the right and left heart in endurance and non-endurance athletes with and without Ventricular’

•    ‘Device-guided slow breathing to lower blood pressure-a novel non-pharmacological approach to management of hypertension: predictors of anit-hypertensive response’

•    ‘Home monitoring of sleep in heart failure patients. A novel method of assessment of clinical deterioration’

•    ‘Measuring changes in quality of life before & after cardiac surgery, and the significance of participation in cardiac rehabilitation.’

•    ‘The acute effects of dietary monounsaturated fat on arterial stiffness in patients with untreated hypertension.’

•    ‘Investigating the role of B-type natriuretic peptide in identifying patients at risk of developing diabetic cardiomyopathy’

•    ‘Relationship between salt intake and nighttime blood pressure, nocturnal dipping and arterial stiffness in a large hypertensive population’

•    ‘Community knowledge of the risk factors and warning signs for stroke, pre and post an education session: a pilot study’

Please contact Cora Lavin, clavin@irishheart.ie  T: 01 668 5001 if you have any other queries.