NHRP Academy | Know Your Funder| British Heart Foundation

 

The NHRP Academy’s Know Your Funder series continues with a dedicated session featuring the British Heart Foundation (BHF). This event will give researchers valuable insight into the BHF’s funding priorities, available grant schemes, and what the organisation looks for in high‑quality applications. This session is ideal for anyone planning to apply for BHF funding or looking to deepen their understanding of cardiovascular research support.

The session will be hosted by :

Kieran Prior is Head of Clinical Research Programmes at the British Heart Foundation (BHF). His role is focusing on driving activity to achieve the aims of the organisation’s research strategy, focusing particularly on growing the quality, ambition and scale of clinical and translational cardiovascular research supported by BHF, and on supporting and diversifying BHF’s research community to deliver high quality clinical research. Before joining BHF in November 2025, Kieran has spent nearly 10 years working for other large scale research funders, including Cancer Research UK and the NIHR.

Sarah Kohe, Senior Research Advisor – Clinical Fellowships

Sarah is from New Zealand originally and completed her PhD in neurobiology at the University of Otago in 2010. She then worked as a research fellow in brain tumour research at the University of Birmingham, before joining Wellcome as a Funding Manager in 2019. She joined the British Heart Foundation in 2024 as a Senior Research Advisor for clinical fellowships.

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