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.

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

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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

Emergency response to COVID-19 in Peru (CLOSED)

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Funding for innovative and low-cost solutions focused on COVID-19 diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology, PEE, and telehealth.

Amount
Up to PEN 350,000
Agency or Funder
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, Peru
Eligibility (if available)

Public and private Peruvian institutions, non-profits, universities, and international and foreign centres based in Peru

Foreign participation? (where known)
No

Calls for Rapid and Impactful Study Proposals on Behavioural and Psychological Aspects of COVID-19

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Join a network of labs from 70 countries in the world to help understand the behavioral and psychological aspects of the COVID-19 outbreak. (No funding involved.)

Agency or Funder
Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA)
Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

With the support of the World Bank, funding for applied research and commercialisation

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Funding for universities, technologists and researchers with innovative proposals, including seed funding, to provide solutions applicapel to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amount
Rs. 15M max.
Agency or Funder
Higher Education Commission & World Bank
Eligibility (if available)

Universities, technologists, researchers

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Join a research collaboration using data science to support acute care management and clinical decision making

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Teams winning support will rapidly trial data science and machine learning methods onnew national DECOVID data resource of COVID 19 data.

Amount
Not specified
Agency or Funder
The Alan Turing Institute
Eligibility (if available)

UK-based data science teams with strong experience in
working with health and clinical data applications

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Scottish Government funding for COVID-19 research in the field of therapeutics, diagnostics, experimental medicine, data science and social science

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The call will support Scottish universities in their result-oriented research to come up with clinical practice and policy outcomes.

Amount
£1.25M per proposal
Agency or Funder
Scottish Government
Eligibility (if available)

Scottish universities

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Innovative ideas to develop solution to combat the pandemic

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The ''Roche Canada COVID-19 Innovation Challenge'' is looking for applicants from various backgrounds to address the COVID-19 pandemic

Amount
C$50,000 per program
Agency or Funder
Hoffmann-La Roche Limited
Eligibility (if available)

Individuals, corporations, partnerships or other organizations based in Canada

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Covid-19 research call as part of the Competitive Research Program

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An opportunity for private and public sector research in the fields of technology and material developement, infection prevention and control, and epidemiology.

Amount
Rs. 20M per project
Agency or Funder
Pakistan Science Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers, research consortia, academia/R&D/industry collaborations

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Urgent call for research to support the response to COVID-19 in humanitarian settings

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This call focuses on priorities related to the current COVID-19 outbreak in humanitarian settings in low and middle-income countries. Vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics will not be funded. Two further deadlines on 20 April 2020.

Amount
Not stated
Agency or Funder
Elrha
Eligibility (if available)

Refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in camps or urban settings, and conflict affected people, in low and middle income countries

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

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

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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

Trinational Nordic and Nordic-Estonian/Latvian COVID-19 data projects

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Funding for trinational health data research involving involving at least three countries – either three or more Nordic countries, or two or more Nordic countries plus Estonia and/or Latvia.

Amount
NOK 57M
Agency or Funder
NordForsk
Eligibility (if available)

Project leader must hold a PhD and work at the host institution

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

CITRIS Seed funding for transformative technology and policy solutions

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Proposals should focus on how information technology can change the way the pandemic is handled. Projects should be able to be rapidly implemented through public and private channels, with large scaling possibilities and technology transfer.

Amount
Up to $50,000 per project
Agency or Funder
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers with Principal Investigator status at UC Berkeley, UC Davis (including UC Davis Health), UC Merced, and UC Santa Cruz.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline