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.

Private-public consortium opens up high-performance computing capabilities to researchers worldwide.

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Research proposals around the world relating to the COVID-19 virus will be matched with appropriate high-performance computing facilities from among the consortium partners.

Agency or Funder
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Department of Energy and IBM
Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes

A Pandemic Response Challenge Program to meet COVID-19 related needs

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Accelerate the development of diagnostics and medical countermeasures for a rapid front-line response to protect and treat Canadians.

Amount
C$15M
Agency or Funder
National Research Council of Canada
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers at Canadian and international universities, government departments, colleges, and highly innovative firms with relevant expertise.

DCL: Provisioning Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to Further Research on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Non-medical, Non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to better understand how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19; to inform and educate about the science of virus transmission and prevention; and to encourage the develo

Amount
$200K (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
U.S. National Science Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

qualified scientists, engineers and educators from Institutions of Higher Education, Non-profit, Non-academic Organizations, For-profit Organizations, State and Local Governments, Foreign Organizations,

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes

RAPID: Dear Colleague Letter on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is accepting proposals to conduct non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to explore how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19, to inform and educate about the science of

Amount
$200K (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
U.S. National Science Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

qualified scientists, engineers and educators from Institutions of Higher Education, Non-profit, Non-academic Organizations, For-profit Organizations, State and Local Governments, Foreign Organizations,

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes

Call for innovative health solutions with immediate benefit in the fight against COVID-19

Date added: 27 Apr 2020

Solutions should address a real COVID-19 need, filling a gap or aiming to reduce the significant burden currently being felt across healthcare in Europe.

Amount
0
Agency or Funder
EIT Health
Eligibility (if available)

SMEs, Organisations.

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

Fast track access to research facilities for Central European researchers

Date added: 27 Apr 2020

Quick access to use selected instruments – including NMR, synchrotron, X-ray scattering and X-ray diffraction – for research topics related to COVID-19.

Agency or Funder
Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers of any nationality working in Albania, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Estonia, North Macedonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia or Ukraine.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes

Top-up award for existing PCORI-funded Engagement Award projects

Date added: 29 Apr 2020

Funding for existing PCORI-funded projects that wish to adapt or alter their original aims to produce useful knowledge or research related to COVID-19.

Amount
Up to $150.000 (U.S.)
Agency or Funder
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Eligibility (if available)

Only PCORI-funded project leads with active Engagement Award contracts are eligible

US–Israeli cooperation to understand the spread of COVID-19

Date added: 05 May 2020

A call for research how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19, its transmission and prevention in the society. Computer sciences and engineering proposals will not be accepted.

Amount
$55.000 - $80.000 (U.S. dollars) per year
Agency or Funder
United States–Israel Binational Science Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Scientists must work in the US and Israel

Foreign participation? (where known)
No

Emergency funding for COVID-19 studies not requiring clinical trials

Date added: 05 May 2020

Projects should carry out on rapid research into fundamental virology, immunology, and the development of animal models, reagents, and medical countermeasures.

Amount
Up to $275.000 (USD)
Agency or Funder
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Eligibility (if available)

Higher education institutions, non-profit organisations, SMEs, for-profit organisations, governments

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes

Open call for proposals for the COVID-19 Google Research Credits Program

Date added: 05 May 2020

Research projects for potential treatments, techniques and datasets will be prioritised according to their impact on public health. Preference will be given to projects that plan to make their datasets publicly available and referenceable.

Amount
$5.000 (U.S.) in GCP credits. PhD awards $1,000 (U.S.)
Agency or Funder
Google
Eligibility (if available)

A commercial, nonprofit, government or academic research institution based in a country where Google Credits Program credits are approved.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes

The role of genomics in fighting COVID-19

Date added: 06 May 2020

Support for regional projects that use genomics to address specific, short-term needs of industry, not-for-profit bodies and the public sector in relation to COVID-19 through research in collaboration with these organisations.

Amount
Up to 250,000 CAD per region, total 1.5M CAD
Agency or Funder
Genome British Columbia
Eligibility (if available)

Regional organisations and researchers from Genome Centres

Foreign participation? (where known)
No

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