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.

Mozilla opens call for proposals for technology projects to respond to COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Proposals should include hardware and software such as open-source ventilators or a browser plugin that combats COVID-related misinformation.

Amount
$50,000 (U.S. dollars) per project
Agency or Funder
Mozilla Open Source Support Program (MOSS)
Eligibility (if available)

Any kind of legal entity.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes

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

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

Rapid research on the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Projects should focus on detection, treatment, support crisis management capabilities, enhanced resilience and recovery of India's workers, and small businesses during the pandemic.

Amount
$1M (U.S dollars)
Agency or Funder
Omidyar Network India
Eligibility (if available)

NGOs, research organisations, social entrepreneurs, and for-profit businesses, and partner organisations

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Fast-track grant for research on non-animal approaches to investigate mechanisms, medicines, and vaccines for COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The aim of the call is to gather information and stimulate funding of the development of non-animal, human biology-based models to help coordinate and accelerate responses to current and emerging pandemics

Amount
up to $40,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
Eligibility (if available)

Academic group, non-profit, or small or medium enterprise

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Emergency competitive revisions for research on repurposing existing therapeutics to address COVID-19.

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

NCATS is particularly interested in projects that repurpose existing drugs or biologics (existing therapeutics) that have already begun.

Agency or Funder
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
Eligibility (if available)

Existing NCATS grantholders

Date application deadline

Basic, applied and innovation research in the BRICS countries

Date added: 10 Jul 2020

Projects should focus on new diagnostic technologies, vaccines and treatments, genomic sequencing, epidemiology and computing oriented research.

Amount
Depends on national funding
Agency or Funder
BRICS
Eligibility (if available)

Applicants should have at least two other BRICS countries involved in the project

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline