New call for funding open 6th January 2025 – 31st January 2025 The BHF Data Science Centre Kidney Catalyst has launched a new call for funding, in partnership with Kidney Research UK. This opportunity offers researchers up to… Read more

What is the ‘Stroke Data Science Catalyst’? The Stroke Data Science Catalyst (a five-year partnership between the BHF Data Science Centre, HDR UK and the Stroke Association) will enable approved research teams… Read more

What is the ‘Diabetes Data Science Catalyst’? The Diabetes Data Science Catalyst will support research of relevance to both diabetes and cardiovascular diseases through the use of health data science and advanced analytics such as Artificial Intelligence. Professor… Read more

What do we mean by ‘enhancing cohorts’? A cohort is a group of people who take part in a research study. These people will be asked to take part because they have a certain disease or characteristics in common, for… Read more

What do we mean by data enabled clinical trials? All clinical trials rely on data to help answer important questions and make decisions about health care. However, only a small proportion of clinical trials that are run in the UK… Read more

What do we mean by ‘defining disease’ and by ‘phenotypes’? A phenotype is a characteristic of an individual which can be seen or measured. Phenotypes can include diseases (e.g. type 2 diabetes or heart failure), blood measurements (e.g. cholesterol), lifestyle… Read more

What do we mean by ‘smartphone and wearable data’? Smartphone and wearable data are collected by wearable devices, such as health-tracking mobile smartphone apps and fitness watches, and can also be known as ‘personal monitoring data’. This data can be… Read more

What do we mean by ‘unstructured data’? Unstructured data refers to health information that is not organised in a pre-defined way – for example, there isn’t a pre-set ‘drop down’ list of options that the doctor clicks on. Examples of… Read more