Female Heart – Clinical Mechanistic Grants

The Female Heart – Mechanistic Research Grants aims to enhance understanding of the mechanistic drivers of sex-related differences in cardiovascular disease by fostering European collaborative research projects anchored in the Nordic countries. The program funds mechanistic or translational research that seeks to enhance mechanistic understanding of sex-related differences in cardiovascular disease. Research areas include investigating how age and life-phase affect cardiovascular disease development, long-term effects of disease drivers and treatments on cardiovascular function, endothelial function impairment in women, non-obstructive coronary artery disease presentation in women, and causative feedback loops between cardiovascular disease and sex-specific comorbidities. The research project must involve international collaboration between institutions in different countries, with the main applicant based in a Nordic country and co-applicants in the European Economic Area, UK, or Switzerland. Sex-related differences in cardiovascular disease must be the core focus of the proposed research project and directly relate to the research hypothesis.