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.

Microsoft AI tools for COVID-19 research

Date added: 11 May 2020

Microsoft will provide free access to its Azure cloud computing service to nonprofits, academics and governments demonstrating clearly defined potential to impact the COVID-10 response.

Amount
Azure cloud and High-Performance Computing capabilities
Agency or Funder
Microsoft
Eligibility (if available)

Nonprofits, academia, and governments

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

MIT wants to back tech innovations to help track the spread of an emerging outbreak

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The research will focus in particular how to improve individual hygiene, develop low-cost rapid diagnostics, analyse data, and provide tools to support and protect health workers.

Amount
$10,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
Massachusets Institute of Technology (MIT) Solve
Eligibility (if available)

Individual, organisations from around the world

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

International call for tech-based solutions

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

MIT Solve is looking for tech innovations to improve individual hygiene, develop low-cost rapid diagnostics and data tools to inform decision-makers and support health workers.

Amount
$1.5M (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
MIT Solve
Eligibility (if available)

Open to individuals, research teams and organisations

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Competitive revison for Common Fund grants and cooperative agreements

Date added: 29 Apr 2020

The Office of Strategic Coordination is offering additional funding to existing grantholders who revise their studies to incorporate innovative ways to prepare, prevent, and respond to the outbreak, domestically or internationally.

Amount
Not limited
Agency or Funder
NIH Office of Strategic Coordination
Eligibility (if available)

NIH grantees have to submit to PA-20-135 competitive revision

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Funding support for clinical trials

Date added: 05 May 2020

Funding for clinical trials to evaluate new drugs, devices, clinical guidance, approaches and technologies aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19. Projects may range from proof-of-concept to large-scale trials.

Amount
$30M (U.S.)
Agency or Funder
US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
Eligibility (if available)

Principal investigator must be at level of Assistant Professor or equivalent.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Inaugural Elevate Prize to address health security and pandemics such as COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Applications should focus on how can help communities around the world prepare for, detect, and respond to emerging pandemics and health security threats such as COVID-19

Amount
$300,000 (U.S dollars) per project
Agency or Funder
Elevate Prize Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Individual applicants must be affiliated with a legally established entity

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Support for preclinical research into countermeasures against COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Support for the preclinical development of therapeutics or vaccines to fight infectious diseases/pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2. (Clinical trials will not be supported.)

Amount
$4,050,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
National Institutes of Health (NIH) - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Eligibility (if available)

Higher Education Institutions, Nonprofits and For-Profit Organizations,State Governments ini the US.

Date application deadline

Amazon Web Services offers its customers support to find diagnostic solutions

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Support for innovation in rapid and accurate patient testing for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), and other diagnostic solutions to mitigate future outbreaks.

Amount
$20M (U.S dollars)
Agency or Funder
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Eligibility (if available)

Research institutions, research consortia, and private entities that are AWS customers. Individuals must apply on behalf of their organization and not in their personal capacity.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Rapid-response proposals in any field of study

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability is calling for proposals for faculty research related to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Amount
$5,000 - $10,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability
Eligibility (if available)

Full-time faculty members of the Cornell University

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

An urgent call for proposals for assays, vaccines, disease models and advanced manufacturing techniques.

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

BARDA is seeking abstract submissions for the following: Diagnostic assays, screening and model development, vaccines, advanced manufacturing.

Amount
$750,000 (U.S dollars)
Agency or Funder
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)
Eligibility (if available)

Not specified, but a call with the relevant Program Manager is strongly encouraged.

Date application deadline

Crisis prepardness and response in education across the world

Date added: 24 Jun 2020

Projects should address the shortcomings of education highlighted during the pandemic and propose preventative solutions and immediate responses to education needs during large-scale disruptions.

Amount
$100,000 to $1M USD
Agency or Funder
The Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies and Dubai Cares
Eligibility (if available)

Academic and research institutions, private companies, non-profits, government and UN agencies

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Distance Learning and Telemedicine program for rural communities

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The Distance Learning and Telemedicine program will assist rural communities in the use of modern telecommunications and the Internet for education and health care

Amount
$1M (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Eligibility (if available)

Legal entity, an Indian tribe or tribal organization, a state or local unit of government, a consortium

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Research on clinical and community-related aspects of COVID-19

Date added: 01 Jul 2020

Applications must address clinical (hospital or outpatient) or community-related aspects of COVID-19. Translational projects will be preferred. Basic research at the cellular level, or into animals, will not be considered.

Amount
$25,000 USD
Agency or Funder
CHEST Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Health professionals, clinical researchers and non-profts that are members of CHEST

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

The 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge for technology solutions to the pandemic

Date added: 05 May 2020

Open call for developers, visionaries, and problem solvers to build open source technology solutions that address three main areas: crisis communication during an emergency, ways to improve remote learning, and how to inspire cooperative local com

Amount
$200,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
IBM
Eligibility (if available)

Developers, designers, and entrepreneurs over the age of 18 or the age of majority in their jurisdiction. Not eligible: Employees of IBM, David Clark Cause, and governmental agencies

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

COVID-19 in vulnerable populations, its long-term effect, and the effectiveness of remdesivir

Date added: 06 Jul 2020

Projects lasting up to 9 months should collect data on the clinical course and outcome of COVID-19 in vulnerable populations, investigate long-term consequences of COVID-19 in patients, or test the safety and effectiveness of remdesivir in treatin

Amount
Up to $250,000 USD
Agency or Funder
GILEAD
Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Funding for research into mechanisms of immunoregulation

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Grants to identify key immune regulatory genes, signaling pathways, or mechanisms to contribute to the knowledge of the pathogenesis of infectious diseases.

Amount
$275,000 (for two- year project)
Agency or Funder
National Institutes of Health (NIH) - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Eligibility (if available)

Higher Education Institutions, Nonprofits and For-Profit Organizations,State Governments ini the US.

Date application deadline

A special request for technology-driven proposals to address the COVID-19 pandemic

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The call will support Principal Investigators from a CITRIS campus to address COVID-19 from technological angle.

Amount
$50,000 (U.S dollars) per project
Agency or Funder
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and Banatao Institute
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers with Principal Investigator status on any of the four CITRIS campuses: UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced, and UC Santa Cruz

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Improving outcomes in people with cystic fibrosis

Date added: 06 Jul 2020

The research should determine how susceptible cystic fibrosis (CF) cells are to COVID-19, identify and evaluate responses to the virus in people with CF, and understand how commonly prescribed medications used in CF may alter responses to the viru

Amount
Up to $125,000 USD per year
Agency or Funder
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Applicants must be independent investigators

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Applied Research to Address The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Emerging Public Health Emergency

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center of Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) issues this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) under the provisions of FAR 35.016 and FAR 6.102(d)(2) which provides for the compet

Amount
$10M (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Eligibility (if available)

educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, not for profit organizations, state and local government, and private industry for research and development

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline