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.

Equipment for animal-free research in UK universities

Date added: 08 May 2020

Diagnostic tests, disease development, and drug identification/testing tools will be granted for immediate COVID-19 related research.

Amount
Quasi Vivo Systems, and £500 consumables budget
Agency or Funder
Animal Free Research UK and Kirkstall Ltd
Eligibility (if available)

Research must take place at a UK institution

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on people living with HIV

Date added: 29 Apr 2020

Priority areas include epidemiology, health care system management, and biomarkers indicative of disease susceptibility, severity and progression.

Amount
£1.5M
Agency or Funder
ViiV Healthcare
Eligibility (if available)

Applicants must be affiliated with a clinical institution

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Insights from humanities and social sciences into the impact of COVID-19

Date added: 05 May 2020

Primary or secondary research projects should draw on humanities and social sciences to contribute to the understanding of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic.

Amount
£10,000
Agency or Funder
The British Academy
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers of postdoctoral or equivalent level in humanities and social sciences

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Development and testing of therapeutics to treat COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

A £10 million fund to support research to accelerate the development and testing of therapeutics that can be rapidly deployed to treat the symptoms of COVID-19.

Amount
£10M
Agency or Funder
LifeArc
Eligibility (if available)

Academics, NHS employees or companies that have therapeutics that could be repurposed or repositioned for use in COVID-19 patients

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

How has COVID-19 affected mental health in the UK?

Date added: 15 Jun 2020

Projects lasting up to 12 months should address how the UK’s COVID-19 response measures have impacted individual and population-wide mental health.

Amount
UK - 80% of full economic costs. Overseas - 100% direct costs only
Agency or Funder
UK Research and Innovation and the Department of Health and Social Care
Eligibility (if available)

Principal investigator must be hosted by an institution eligible for UKRI funding. Foreign organisations are welcome as co-investigators

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

How has COVID-19 affected healthy ageing?

Date added: 19 Jun 2020

Research should enhance the understanding of the needs and aspirations of older people, including in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on social, behavioural and design aspects of healthy ageing.

Amount
Up to £2M
Agency or Funder
UK Research and Innovation
Eligibility (if available)

Principal investigator must be based in a UK research organisation. Foreign researchers are welcome as co-investigators

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Long term impact of COVID-19

Date added: 15 Jun 2020

Research must address long-term impacts of COVID-19 to support recovery and learning for health and care services, and to mitigate the impact of any further waves of infection.

Amount
Not specified
Agency or Funder
National Institute for Health Research
Eligibility (if available)

Any UK institution

Date application deadline

Second BSAC Funding call

Date added: 03 Jul 2020

A call for studies involving researchers from LMICs, or the impact of the virus on LMICs, which address the impact of COVID-19 on antimicrobial resistance.

Amount
$1M
Agency or Funder
British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Eligibility (if available)

Worldwide open call. Researchers from LMICs are encouraged. See terms and conditions for grants.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Short-term projects addressing and mitigating the impact of COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries

Date added: 28 May 2020

Projects should relate to resilience, security protracted conflict, refugee crises and forced displacement, cities and sustainable infrastructure, food systems, education and global health in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amount
Not specified
Agency or Funder
UK Research and Innovation
Eligibility (if available)

Applicants outside of the UK can apply either as principal investigators if their organisations led or have led and held UKRI grants, or as members partnering with UK-based principal investigators

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Applied health research focused on low and middle-income countries

Date added: 20 May 2020

Call for epidemiology, clinical management, infection control and health system response studies looking to mitigate the pandemic’s health impacts in low- and middle-income countries.

Amount
Up to £1 M
Agency or Funder
UK Research and Innovation and the National Institute for Health Research
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers from LMICs and the UK

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Travel and subsistence funding to support Low- and Middle-Income Country engagement during the COVID-19 outbreak

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Travel and subsistence funding to appropriately qualified public health professionals, clinicians and academics who wish to offer science and technical advice to support the immediate response to COVID-19 in low and middle-income countries.

Agency or Funder
NIHR
Date application deadline

Short-term projects addressing the COVID-19 outbreak in low- and middle-income countries

Date added: 15 May 2020

UK and LMIC-based research organisations are invited to address LMIC COVID-19 response and recovery or gather critical data and resources for future research use.

Amount
80% of the full economic cost for UK applicants, 100% for LMIC applicants
Agency or Funder
UKRI
Eligibility (if available)

Any UK researchers eligible for UKRI funding and LMIC-based organisations

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Rapid response call for UK-led research into COVID-19

Date added: 29 Apr 2020

UKRI calls for projects with potential to deliver a significant contribution to the understanding, prevention or management of the COVID-19 outbreak within 12 months.

Amount
UK - 80% of full economic costs. Overseas - 100% direct costs only
Agency or Funder
UK Research and Innovation and the Department of Health and Social Care
Eligibility (if available)

Principal investigator must be hosted by an institution eligible for UKRI funding.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline