Science|Business Database: Coronavirus Funding Opportunities

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As a service to the global R&D community, Science|Business has compiled this database of funding opportunities. Users are encouraged to let us know of funding calls that could be incorporated into the database. Please email all suggestions to [email protected]. The database will be updated daily. For rapid news about COVID-19, see our live blog.

Fighting COVID-19 in developing countries

Date added: 06 Jul 2020

Research must address COVID-19 in developing countries in at least one of the following fields: policy and practice to understand and recover from COVID-19; manufacturing and adoption of wide-scale interventions; gathering of data and resources fo

Amount
80% of the full economic cost for UK participants, 100% for LMIC participants
Agency or Funder
The Global Challenges Research Fund and the Newton Fund
Eligibility (if available)

Organisations from the UK and countries on the OECD DAC list of ODA recipients. Principal investigators not from the UK must have held a UKRI grant in the past three years

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes

Using space to mitigate pandemics

Date added: 27 Apr 2020

Applicants should use space technology by using space-based products and services to improve the UK healthcare ecosystem impacted by the pandemic

Amount
Up to 80% for SMEs, universities and research institutes; up to 50% for larger companies
Agency or Funder
European Space Agency and UK Space Agency
Eligibility (if available)

Universities, Research Institutes, Companies, Consortia

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes

Epidemic Preparedness: COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

This call aims to strengthen the evidence base to better prevent and control coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemics and to increase research and response capacity.

Amount
Up to £2M
Agency or Funder
Wellcome Trust & UK Department for International Development (DFID)
Eligibility (if available)

PhD plus significant postdoctoral experience in an academic research organisation, a not-for-profit or government body, a private sector organisation

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes

Flagship Covid-19 and cardiovascular health projects

Date added: 08 May 2020

UK researchers are invited to study cardiovascular complications in COVID-19 infection, their prevention, short and long-term impact, and why patients with heart and circulatory diseases are at greater risk of adverse outcomes.

Amount
N/A
Agency or Funder
The British Heart Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

UK cardiovascular research community

Foreign participation? (where known)
No

Health research for low- and middle-income countries

Date added: 28 May 2020

Projects should focus on epidemiology, clinical management, prevention and social sciences.

Amount
£1M per award
Agency or Funder
UK Department of Health and Social Care and Medical Research Council
Eligibility (if available)

Applications are particularly encouraged from LMIC principal investigators, as well as principal investigators based in the UK working in equitable partnerships with LMIC investigators. Applicants must have a relevant academic affiliation to an eligible institution in an LMIC or the UK.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes

Proposals invited for research into the novel coronavirus

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

A call for proposals for better understanding of diagnosis, prevention and management of the virus

Amount
£20 million
Agency or Funder
UK Research and Innovation & National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
Eligibility (if available)

UK academia, industry experts and international partners

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Rapid Response Call for "Active intervention development" and "Diagnosing and understanding COVID-19"

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Research is to focus on vaccines and therapeutics; and on diagnostics, clinical investigations, anthropology investigations, and development of technologies, platforms or systems to accelerate the R&D of diagnostics.

Amount
£20M
Agency or Funder
National Institute for Health Research
Eligibility (if available)

Hosted by a UK institution eligible for UKRI funding. Overseas research organisations in affected countries providing important local engagement can be co-investigators

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Funding from the 'Techforce 19' programme to support those in need during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Government funding for innovators who can support the elderly, vulnerable and self-isolating in the community (not in clinical settings) during COVID-19 to apply for government funding of up to £25,000 to test their solution.

Amount
up to £25,000 per company
Agency or Funder
NHSX (Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and NHS Improvement) and managed by PUBLIC
Eligibility (if available)

Technology companies, Innovators

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Join a research collaboration using data science to support acute care management and clinical decision making

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Teams winning support will rapidly trial data science and machine learning methods onnew national DECOVID data resource of COVID 19 data.

Amount
Not specified
Agency or Funder
The Alan Turing Institute
Eligibility (if available)

UK-based data science teams with strong experience in
working with health and clinical data applications

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

The British Medical Association Foundation for Medical Research is looking to fund COVID-19 research

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

A £65,000 grant to promote COVID-19 research; the application does not restrict the area of research.

Amount
£65,000
Agency or Funder
British Medical Association Foundation for Medical Research
Eligibility (if available)

UK-registered medical practitioners or research scientists in the UK

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Scottish Government funding for COVID-19 research in the field of therapeutics, diagnostics, experimental medicine, data science and social science

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The call will support Scottish universities in their result-oriented research to come up with clinical practice and policy outcomes.

Amount
£1.25M per proposal
Agency or Funder
Scottish Government
Eligibility (if available)

Scottish universities

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Urgent call for research to support the response to COVID-19 in humanitarian settings

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

This call focuses on priorities related to the current COVID-19 outbreak in humanitarian settings in low and middle-income countries. Vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics will not be funded. Two further deadlines on 20 April 2020.

Amount
Not stated
Agency or Funder
Elrha
Eligibility (if available)

Refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in camps or urban settings, and conflict affected people, in low and middle income countries

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Call for proposals from businesses to make UK more resilient to COVID-19 pandemic

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Support for UK businesses to focus on emerging or increasing social and industrial needs during and following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Amount
£20M
Agency or Funder
Innovate UK
Eligibility (if available)

UK registered businesses (sole traders are not eligible to apply)

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

BSAC COVID-19 Funding Call

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

A COVID-19 funding call to support researchers in microbiology in better understanding and addressing COVID-19 outbreak.

Amount
up to £25,000
Agency or Funder
British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Eligibility (if available)

Very broad, including early career researchers and clinical trainees. Note that applications are not normally encouraged from principal investigators and co-workers in receipt of grants in excess of £100K (or local equivalent) in the past two years. See stage.bsac.org.uk/funding/ for details.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline