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Breaths & Beats Ride 2024
On Sunday 21 April 2024, more than 230 riders took part in the second annual Capital Limited Breaths & Beats Ride for Research. Starting and ending at our brand-new location of Sir James Mitchell Park in South Perth, the 29km ride raised in excess of $250,000 for the Heart and Lung Research Institute WA (HLRI). …
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Breaths & Beats Ride 2023
$251,370 raised in 2023 for heart and lung research. On May 7th 2023 15 heart and lung transplant recipients lead 230 cyclists challenging themselves by taking part in our inaugural 34km Breaths and Beats Ride for Research. Our fundraising ride, starting and finishing at Fiona Stanley Hospital, raised almost a quarter of a million dollars…
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Ride for Research Launch Evening.
On March 3rd 2023, 250+ guests attended our first Breaths and Beats Ride for Research launch event at Royal Bay Freshwater Yacht Club. The event, that showcased our amazing transplant recipient riders to their sponsors and the wider community, was a huge success and we can’t wait for 2024. We are so pleased to announce…
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Meet the Riders
Read the stories of some of our amazing heart and lung transplant recipient riders who participated in HLRI’s 2023 Inaugural Breaths and Beats Ride below. MEET ALEX… Alex is 24, she just completed her masters in astrophysics at UWA and was working in consultancy before PhD commencement. Previously well, a virus attacked her heart and…
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The gift of life – increasing the use of donated hearts
In 2019, around Australia there were 367 heart donors but only 112 hearts were transplanted. Improving the use of donated organs is an area of clear unmet need. Unlike brain-dead donors, some donors suffer a circulatory death (DCD), where the heart has ceased beating. Hearts from these donors have traditionally been considered too high risk…