Understanding the interactions between cardiovascular diseases and comorbidities and/or their therapeutic treatments (InterHeart) – ERA4Health 2025

The French Research Agency is participating to the Joint Transnational Call “InterHeart” launched under the umbrella of the Partnership ERA4Health (“Fostering a European Research Area for Health”). This call aims to support proposals studying the interactions between the cardiovascular system and the other organs/systems when at least one of the two presents a pathological state.

The French National Research Agency, in partnership with eleven countries (Belgium- including Wallonia-Brussels, Flanders-,Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Spain -including region of Andalusia-, Taiwan, Türkiye) is launching the novel international call for projects under the umbrella of the Partnership ERA4Health (“Fostering a European Research Area for Health”).The total budget for this action is about of 10.7 million euros.

The aim of this call is to enable scientists in different countries to build a valuable collaboration based on complementarities and sharing of expertise on interdisciplinary research projects studying the interactions between the cardiovascular system and the other organs/systems when at least one of the two presents a pathological state.

More precisely, the proposals should focus on expanding knowledge and understanding on:

• how CVD affect the performance of other organs/systems and/or their capacity to respond to treatments,
• how disorders other than CVD affect cardiovascular system performance including response to treatments,
• and/or how treatment for disorders other than CVD affect positively or negatively the performance of the cardiovascular system.

Interested applicants should carefully read the call text and the “modalités de participation pour les partenaires sollicitant une aide de l’ANR” for more information including the eligibility rules.