Organization Overview
For over 100 years, the American Heart Association has been addressing heart disease and brain health and helping families and communities thrive. Funding research is a cornerstone of the American Heart Association’s lifesaving mission and a key to our future. Since 1949, the AHA has made significant annual investments in research, which now total over $6.1 billion. Our funding has supported many Nobel Prize winning scientists, in addition to breakthroughs in cardiovascular and stroke discovery, translation, and clinical applications through more than 50,000 projects. As the nation’s largest non-profit, non-governmental funder of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular research, this achievement can be measured in longer, healthier lives for untold individuals and families around the world.
