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.

Research funding in Islamic countries

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Joint call from the UN World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the Islamic Development Bank for Research (IsDB) for epidemiology, diagnostic and treatments research in member states of the IsDB

Amount
$100,000 per grant
Agency or Funder
IsDB and TWAS
Eligibility (if available)

Each principal applicant must be a national of an IsDB country

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Societal Responses to and Preparedness for Emerging Viral Infections

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Support for in-depth, collaborative projects with up to three groups to accelerate society’s preparedness for and early detection of emerging viral diseases.

Amount
DKK 20M
Agency or Funder
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

The main applicant and host institution must be anchored in Denmark. The host institution could be any Danish public research institution.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Scientific collaboration between Muslim countries

Date added: 29 Apr 2020

Grants available to enable collaborating groups in different IsDB countries to buy research equipment and strengthen facilities to enhance their partnership and productivity and to support the mobility of scientists between the participating insti

Amount
$50,000 (U.S.dollars) per research group
Agency or Funder
The World Academy of Sciences and the Islamic Development Bank
Eligibility (if available)

IsDB Member Countries, only PhD holders

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Horizon 2020 funding for pan-European COVID-19 cohort studies

Date added: 20 May 2020

Projects should create new large-scale population cohorts projects or build on existing ones to understand the control, prevention and treatment of COVID-19.

Amount
€15 to €20M
Agency or Funder
European Commission
Eligibility (if available)

At least 3 legal entities from 3 different Horizon 2020 countries

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Translate promising preclinical findings into products for clinical applications

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Projects should include emerging viral diseases and respiratory health topics – and be relevant to the healthcare needs of military service members, veterans, military beneficiaries, and/or the American public.

Amount
$25M (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
Eligibility (if available)

Government agencies, eligible non-DoD organization, DoD laboratory, DoD military treatment facility, and/or DoD activity embedded within a civilian medical centre

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
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

Supplement for rapid implementation towards young researchers, CEPIDs and CPEs

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

This funding opportunity will be a complementary financial support for researchers financed by grants from Tematico program, Centres of Research, Innovation and Diffusion (CEPID), Engineering Research Centres (CPEs) and Young researchers

Amount
R$10M
Agency or Funder
São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers financed in the areas of Tematico, Young Researcher, CEPID and CPE

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Coronavirus: DFG Launches Call for Multidisciplinary Research into Epidemics and Pandemics

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Multidisciplinary projects addressing the prevention, early detection, containment and investigation of the causes, impacts and management of epidemics and pandemics, taking the example of SARS-CoV-2 and other microorganisms and viruses pathogenic

Agency or Funder
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers who have completed their academic training (a doctorate as a rule)

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

Call for funding to research COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The biology of the virus and its transmission, animal and environmental research on the origin of the virus, including control measures at the human-animal interface, epidemiological studies, clinical characterization and clinical management, infe

Amount
€10M
Agency or Funder
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Eligibility (if available)

Must comply with uniform standards for quality assurance of biomaterial banks, patient registers,
IT networking, animal studies, including ARRIVE guidelines

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Clinical trials for at-risk elderly people

Date added: 17 Jun 2020

Project should focus on multi-site clinical trials to address ageing-related issues such as reducing transmission, risk, morbidity, mortality, severity, or complications of COVID-19.

Amount
Not limited
Agency or Funder
National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Aging
Eligibility (if available)

Higher education institutions, nonprofits, for-profit organisations, local and federal governments, non-U.S entities, non-U.S. components of U.S. organisations

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

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