The Mend a Heart Foundation Award
The Children's Heart Foundation is partnering with Mend a Heart Foundation to issue an RFA for the Mend a Heart Foundation Award. This award will be at $100,000 per year for two years.
The Mend a Heart Foundation Award, through The Children's Heart Foundation, will support research that focuses on adult congenital heart disease and the life-long care needs of this growing population.
Examples of proposals that are of particular interest are:
- Clinical and translational research that focuses on the successful transition from adolescence into young adulthood
- Helping patients maintain healthy, active, and independent lifestyles
- Effects of abnormal heart rhythms in the adults with CHD
- Innovative treatment strategies for management of heart failure in adults with CHD
2024 Process and Schedule
Researchers seeking funding must submit an initial Letter of Intent (LOI). The deadline to submit LOIs is June 5, 2024. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application no later than July 8, 2024.
Timeline:
- May 9, 2024 – Call for Research Proposals opens
- June 5, 2024 – Letter of Intent due by 5:00pm CST
- July 8, 2024 – Applicants notified as to whether or not they may submit a full application
- September 11, 2024 – Full Application (invite only) due by 5:00pm CST
- December 16, 2024 – Applicants notified as to a decision regarding funding
- January 2025 – Funds released for awardees
Click here to submit a proposal for the Mend a Heart Foundation Award during the 2024 funding cycle.
Questions? Please email us at MHFAward@childrensheartfoundation.org
LOI guidelines can be found here. Additional research program guidelines can be found here.
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About the Mend a Heart FoundationBrian and Bridget O'Meara were inspired by their son, Liam (pictured), to start the Mend a Heart Foundation in 2007. Liam was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), which meant that he was essentially missing half his heart. He has successfully undergone three reconstructive heart surgeries.
He lives today because of the many heart babies that came before him and the great medical minds and compassionate caregivers who reconfigured his heart to function with a single ventricle.
In support of all children born with congenital heart defects and medical practitioners and researchers who advance congenital heart defect research, the Mend a Heart Foundation supports initiatives that extend and enrich the lives of heart kids.
