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Where does your money go?

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In the 2008-09 financial year we invested over $2 million (53% of our income) in cardiac research and education. A further $4.2 million is committed until 2012.

 

What you donate today will go towards one or more of these vital activities:

Researcher in the laboratory

Your donations buy our researchers the time and resources they need to advance their ideas.

 

  • Providing seed funding for new ideas that could lead to breakthroughs in treating heart disease.
  • Funding clinical studies on novel ways to prevent heart attack and stroke – research that is likely to change the way we think about prevention.
  • Supporting cardiac rehabilitation and education programs at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital.
  • Funding PhD students to do groundbreaking research.
  • Funding two Professorial Chairs of Cardiology at the University of Sydney.
  • Supporting clinical trials that could prevent major health problems in pre-term babies.
  • Providing leading-edge research equipment for our cardiac laboratories.

 

 

2008 New Home for Heart Research appeal

 

 

Goal: To equip new research labs in the hospital's Kolling Building.

 

Our supporters donated over $377,000, to be used entirely for research equipment. Much of this has already been spent. This includes: 

 

  • MRI-compatible anaesthesia machine: $35,000
  • Enclosed culture model:$20,000
  • Rechargeable seriological pipettes; incubator for cell culture; rotation platform: $9,870
  • Computer hardware and software: $19,960
  • X-ray protection aprons: $3,195
  • Install hospital's image intensifier in new translational lab: $115,000

The remainder to be allocated as needed.

 

 

 

  

 

Giving HEART to future generations