BHF Grants & Prizes
The Belgian Heart Foundation (BHF) aims to promote cardiovascular research and education
and finances prizes, research funding, and educational grants.
Applications are managed on the King Baudouin Foundation platform.
Submission period runs from May to Sept.
The 2025 Research grants calls are now closed. Winners will be contacted end of 2025.
Randomised Clinical Trial Grant
This grant is awarded to non-commercial projects for clinical research in the field of cardiovascular pathology.
The research must be centred on the patients and aimed to explore the benefit of interventions (medical or non-medical) in patients with cardiovascular disease.
The research should have a multicentre study design with randomisation between intervention and control.
The research has to be carried out in at least two Belgian institutions, or more.
Amount: 100.000€
In partnership with the Fund for Cardiac surgery
Basic Research Grant
This grant is awarded to non-commercial projects for basic research in the field of cardiovascular pathology. This research encompasses scientific disciplines such as biochemistry, physiology, and pharmacology and their interplay, and involves laboratory studies with cell cultures, animal studies or physiological experiments. Patients are not in the centre of the study but biological samples (e.g. blood) can be used for this purpose.
Amount : 20.000€ (up to 3 winners)
Clinical Research Grant
This grant is awarded to non-commercial projects for clinical research in the field of cardiovascular pathology. The research must be centred on the patients and aimed to determine the role of medication, intervention, diagnosis, symptoms or prevention in the physiological or pathological processes of the cardiovascular system.
Amount : 20.000€ (up to 3 winners)
Léon Dumont Prize
The Prize Dr. Léon Dumont is a legacy offered to the Belgian Society of cardiology to award research excellence.
This Prize concerns basic or clinical research in the field of cardiovascular pathologies.
It is is intended as a recognition for realized research in cardiology and an encouragement to continue research in this field.
The Doctor Léon Dumont Prize is awarded every two years to an European researcher in cardiovascular medicine for clinical and experimental research projects.
Amount : 40.000€
