British Heart Foun­da­tion un­veils short­list for £30M re­search award; On­cono­va scraps Chi­na part­ner­ship

→ While can­cer is catch­ing up, heart dis­ease re­mains the lead­ing cause of death glob­al­ly. In Au­gust 2018, the British Heart Foun­da­tion an­nounced a glob­al com­pe­ti­tion of­fer­ing a sin­gle re­search award of up to £30 mil­lion to “to tur­bo-charge progress” in the field. On Thurs­day, the foun­da­tion whit­tled down the 75 ap­pli­ca­tions it re­ceived to a short­list of four, in­clud­ing a soft ro­bot­ic heart, a cure for ge­net­ic heart dis­ease, a heart at­tack vac­cine and wear­able tech­nol­o­gy. The teams have been giv­en some seed fund­ing and will work on putting to­geth­er their full ap­pli­ca­tions over the next six months — a win­ner will be an­nounced by the end of 2020.

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