The British Heart Foundation has funded a Leeds-based project which will improve understanding of the links between Type 2 Diabetes and heart failure.
The accelerator award funding will help to address the increasing problem of heart failure and how this is exacerbated by metabolic diseases such as diabetes.
The Leeds approach investigates how heart failure and diabetes affect the body and its responses with a focus on enhancing understanding of the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of cardiometabolic disease.
The collaborative project is bringing together a diverse community of researchers including the NIHR Leeds BRC Cardiometabolic theme lead, Professor Beech and WS3 theme lead, Professor Kearney to provide integrated research across the whole spectrum of cardiometabolic disease. This collaborative response is key to making research data available to clinicians to avoid duplication and achieve treatment targets.
This project will use a holistic approach to investigate how the two interact with one another. Last week, the University of Leeds officially launched the British Heart Foundation Accelerator Award, at Cloth Hall Court.