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.

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) regarding the Availability of Administrative Supplements and Urgent Competitive Revisions for Research on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

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Competitive revisions and additional resourcing for a currently funded grant to meet increased costs that are within the scope of the approved project, but that were unforeseen when the new or competing renewal application was awarded.

Amount
$100K (U.S. dollars) direct costs/yr
Agency or Funder
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) - NIDA
Eligibility (if available)

Grantees currently supported by the NIDA.

Date application deadline

IMI2 - Call 21

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Development of antivirals as well as other types of therapeutics to address a rapid response to the current COVID-19 outbreak; therapeutics to address the current and/or future coronavirus outbreaks; diagnostics, ensuring rapid evaluation of candi

Amount
€45M
Agency or Funder
IMI
Eligibility (if available)

See funding call for eligibility rules

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

Special support for rapid implementation projects

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A call for R&D projects that can quickly contribute to improving the response of health systems to the impact of COVID-19, contributing to better patient management and the implementation of public health measures.

Amount
€ 1.5M
Agency or Funder
Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
Eligibility (if available)

Portugal-based entities only

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Call for the development of technologies for products, services and processes to tackle COVID-19

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Part of the third phase of the PIPE programme, aimed at Innovative Research for SMEs. Its objective is to support research for SMEs which have conducted innovative research in the past.

Amount
R$20M
Agency or Funder
São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and FINEP
Eligibility (if available)

Brazilian SMEs based in the state of São Paulo.

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

Emergency call for COVID-19 research in the wake of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak

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A rapid call to Austria businesses for COVID-19 projects lasting no longer than 12 months. To accelerate decision making, this call has a deadline of 8 April; a second call will have a deadline of 11 May.

Amount
€ 21 million
Agency or Funder
Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG)
Eligibility (if available)

Austrian companies planning a research and development project in accordance with the KLIPHA-COVID19 tender guidelines

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

A Swiss funding call for research on COVID-19 diagnostics, immunology and interventions

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Support for researchers from four partner universities in Switzerland on diagnostics, human immune response, medical interventions and disease management.

Amount
0.5M to 2.5M CHF
Agency or Funder
Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH) at University of Basel & ETH Zurich
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers from its four partner institutions (University of Basel, ETH Zurich, University Children’s Hospital Basel and Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute)/ Multi-institutional consortia and collaborations with national or international researchers are encouraged.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

An Argentinian call aimed at improving the country's capacity to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Research grants are offered in the fields of diagnosis, prevention, treatment other aspects related to COVID-19.

Amount
$100,000 (U.S. dollars) per project
Agency or Funder
La Agencia Nacional de Promoción de la Investigación, el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación (Agencia I+D+i )
Eligibility (if available)

Inter-American Development Bank members

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
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

North and South: projects linking France with a less-developed country

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Opportunities for resource-limited countries to collaborate with French researchers on COVID-19 diagnostics and countermeasures

Amount
€4M
Agency or Funder
Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le Sida et les Hépatites Virales (ANRS)
Eligibility (if available)

One team based in France associated with a team based in a resource-limited country

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Development and Promotion of Innovative Drugs for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases

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Rather than focusing on existing infectious disease research, the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development particularly wants proposals based on innovative ideas and approaches through technology transfer from different fields and multidi

Amount
3.000-5.000 JP¥ per task per year
Agency or Funder
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
Eligibility (if available)

Japanese research institutions only.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Top-up funding for research on therapeutic strategies and diagnostic methods for COVID-19

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Polish investigators already working on COVID-19 are offered rapid, flexible and additional funding to allow them to intensify their research.

Amount
PLN 10M
Agency or Funder
National Science Center
Eligibility (if available)

Must hold a PhD

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Request for proposals focused on the development of medical technologies to combat COVID-19

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US Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) is looking to rapidly accelerate the inquiry, testing, and fielding of new 21st-century capabilities, employing novel technologies and approaches to the detection of exposure, prevention, containm

Amount
To be defined
Agency or Funder
Department of Defense (DoD)
Eligibility (if available)

Must be a member of the MTEC consortium to receive a grant, although membership is not required to make an application.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Call for projects to support to clinical and translational proposals to address the COVID-19 emergency

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The call will specifically give support to clinical and translational proposals that include clearly targeted technologies or projects to prevent, treat, monitor, or diagnose the COVID-19 disease.

Amount
€300,000
Agency or Funder
'La Caixa'' Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Non-profit legal entities based in Spain or Portugal.

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

BSAC COVID-19 Funding Call

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A COVID-19 funding call to support researchers in microbiology in better understanding and addressing COVID-19 outbreak.

Amount
up to £25,000
Agency or Funder
British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Eligibility (if available)

Very broad, including early career researchers and clinical trainees. Note that applications are not normally encouraged from principal investigators and co-workers in receipt of grants in excess of £100K (or local equivalent) in the past two years. See stage.bsac.org.uk/funding/ for details.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Funding opportunity for research in sub-Saharan Africa

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The EU launches an the emergency funding mechanism to support projects on COVID-19 management and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.

Amount
€500,000 per project
Agency or Funder
European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
Eligibility (if available)

EU member states and member states of EDCTP (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia)

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Enlisting space-based technologies in the fight against COVID-19

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Companies are invited to propose projects using at least one space-based technology to improve the management of COVID-19 in diagnostics, therapeutics, mental health and education (e-learning)

Amount
50% of the acceptable cost (up to €1M per project)
Agency or Funder
European Space Agency (ESA)
Eligibility (if available)

Candidates from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline