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.

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

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

Call for COVID-19 medical or non-medical research projects: CLOSED

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The proposals focused on prevention, diagnostics, treatment and/or (medical or non-medical) consequences of COVID-19.

Amount
€50,000
Agency or Funder
Ghent University
Eligibility (if available)

Ghent University staff or visiting professors only.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Near-market proposals for diagnosis, management and treatment.

Date added: 29 Apr 2020

Innovation Fund Denmark is seeking interdisciplinary projects to mitigate the impact of the outbreak on citizens, the healthcare system or the social economy through diagnosis, management and/or treatment.

Amount
DKK 50M
Agency or Funder
Innovation Fund Denmark
Eligibility (if available)

Any legal entity

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Solutions that address the impact of the outbreak

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation is looking for scientific and technological solutions related to diagnosis, treatment , mitigation and monitoring.

Amount
COP$ 26M
Agency or Funder
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia
Eligibility (if available)

Research institutes and organisations

Date application deadline

Support for trainee researchers

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Support to undergraduate, postgraduate, doctorate and postdoctoral students for diagnosis and treatment projects related to COVID-19

Amount
Up to TL 6,000 per month
Agency or Funder
TÜBİTAK
Eligibility (if available)

Undergraduate, postgraduate, doctorate and postdoctoral researchers

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Multidisciplinary call for projects

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

A broad-based call for research with goals deliverable in the short term.

Amount
MEX$ 5M
Agency or Funder
CONACYT (National Council of Science and Technology)
Eligibility (if available)

Research institutes, organisations and MSMEs registered at the Mexican National Register of R&D Institutions and companies

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Transatlantic call for new coronavirus treatment proposals

Date added: 05 May 2020

A call for novel therapies, broad-spectrum antivirals, next-generation vaccines that may target new corona strains, multiple corona viruses or more than one type of virus, and strategies for first responders and emergency medical personnel.

Amount
$150.000 (U.S.) guaranteed, with the potential to receive up to $1 million
Agency or Funder
Harrington Discovery Institute
Eligibility (if available)

Project lead must have an MD, PhD or equivalent and based in the U.S., UK or Canada. 

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Call for Proposals for R&D Plans of Industrial Products for the Prevention and Treatment of the COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Submission of applications for assistance with R&D and technological innovation plans. The final date for applications is 18 May, but there are multiple submission dates before that time: 30 March, 20 April, and 4 May.

Amount
30% to 70% of approved R&D expenses
Agency or Funder
Israel Innovation Authority
Eligibility (if available)

Companies in the manufacturing industry in a variety of fields

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

MRFF – 2020 Respiratory Medicine Clinical Trials Research on COVID-19 Grant Opportunity

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Proposals sought for a clinical trial that accelerates the implementation of treatments for severe acute respiratory distress in patients infected with COVID-19 in order to support the response to the COVID-19 outbreak in Australia.

Amount
$5M AUD
Agency or Funder
Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Eligibility (if available)

Applications will only be accepted from NHMRC approved Administering Institutions

Date application deadline

Basic research and COVID-19

Date added: 15 May 2020

Projects must cover relate to medical and biological problems or economic and educational aspects of the pandemic.

Amount
BGN1.8M
Agency or Funder
Bulgarian National Science Fund
Eligibility (if available)

Scientific organisations and higher education institutions

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Support for projects seeking to mitigate the health consequences of the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic in Denmark

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Support for projects seeking to mitigate the health consequences of the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic in Denmark

Amount
DKK 50M
Agency or Funder
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Public institutions / authorities or private non-profit organizations (eg NGOs) in Denmark participating in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic

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

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) regarding the Availability of Urgent Competitive Revisions for Research on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Competitive revisions to active grants in projects focusing on viral natural history, pathogenicity, transmission, as well as projects developing medical countermeasures and suitable animal models for pre-clinical testing of vaccines and therapeut

Amount
Not limited
Agency or Funder
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) - NIAID & NIGMS
Eligibility (if available)

Existing grantholders wishing to expand the scope of their research.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline