British Heart Foundation Research Funding for University of Aberdeen Studies

The motion

That the Parliament recognises that the British Heart Foundation is funding 12 research projects at the University of Aberdeen, with a total investment of over £2.5 million; believes that the research will go a long way in improving the lives of infants born with heart defects, finding the genes that cause inherited conditions, and will hopefully one day lead to finding a cure for heart failure and heart disease; understands that other projects will include assessing the impact of common, but poorly understood, forms of heart failure, a clinical trial of potential treatments, studying the structure of blood clots, analysing the biology of fatty tissue to see how it affects obesity, looking at how the heart develops so that it might be able to be repaired after a heart attack, studying the genes involved in heart development, so that "broken hearts" can be mended, studying the impact of high blood pressure and searching for new drugs to control this; believes that a large amount of the funding will be going toward a research fellowship studying the biology behind dangerous blood clots that cause heart attacks and stroke as well as PhD studies looking at both uncovering new treatment targets by examining the processes involved in the development of heart disease and searching for new drugs that could prevent the closing over of stents, and wishes everyone involved in these projects all the best with their endeavours.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

SNP 17 Lab 3 Con 3 LD 2

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

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