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 into the impact of COVID-19 on social and living conditions in U.S.

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The research will analyse social, political, economic, or psychological effects of COVID-19 on social and living conditions in the U.S.

Amount
$175.000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
Russell Sage Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

All nationalities are eligible to apply and applicants do not have to reside in the U.S.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Grants for organisations to work on COVID-19 healthcare education and best practice

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The funding will support healthcare providers focused on the recognition, diagnosis, treatment, and care management of patients with COVID-19.

Amount
$5,000,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
Pfizer
Eligibility (if available)

Medical, dental, nursing, allied health, and/or pharmacy professional schools; healthcare institutions (both large and small); professional associations; government agencies; and other entities with a mission related to healthcare improvement. (Not individuals or medical practice groups.)

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

A call for patient-centered proposals

Date added: 05 May 2020

Projects should focus on the emerging research needs of clinicians, policymakers, hospitals, and health systems for patient-centred care during the pandemic

Amount
$21M
Agency or Funder
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Eligibility (if available)

All applicants must adhere to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy on education in the protection of human subject participants in the conduct of research.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Interventional radiology solutions for COVID-19 treatment

Date added: 13 May 2020

Funding for proposals for multidisciplinary, minimally invasive/locoregional therapies for treating critically ill COVID-19 patients.

Amount
$50,000 USD
Agency or Funder
Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Collaboration outside the specialty of interventional radiology is required

Date application deadline

Impact of diabetes on COVID-19

Date added: 18 May 2020

A call for clinical and translational projects that address the increased risk of people with diabetes of developing complications when infected with COVID-19.

Amount
$100,000 USD per project
Agency or Funder
American Diabetes Association
Eligibility (if available)

Applicant must be from US institutions and hold a PhD, MD, MD/PhD degree or equivalent health- or science-related degree

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Understanding the pathobiology and clinical implications of COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses

Date added: 13 May 2020

Research should address the basic biology of respiratory viruses, host factors that alter response to viral infections, community spread of COVID-19, or use epidemiological approaches to understand the disease.

Amount
$50,000 USD for one year
Agency or Funder
American Thoracic Society, GSK
Eligibility (if available)

Assistant professors or equivalent conducting research directly related to COVID-19

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Funding competition: tech-focused ideas for e-learning during pandemic-induced school closures

Date added: 27 Apr 2020

Projects focusing distance learning and education in low- and middle-income countries will compete to be invited to virtual EdTech Pitch Days with a global network of potential funders.

Agency or Funder
EdTech Hub, mEducation Alliance and Global Innovation Exchange
Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Swiss national COVID-19 research programme

Date added: 08 May 2020

Projects must advance the understanding of COVID-19 and the development of vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics. Multidisciplinary collaborations and use of international research networks are encouraged.

Amount
CHF 20M
Agency or Funder
Swiss National Science Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Independent researchers holding a PhD or equivalent

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Innovating manufacturing in response to the pandemic

Date added: 20 May 2020

Projects should develop products, services or business models to innovate manufacturing in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

Amount
Up to €300,000
Agency or Funder
European Insitute of Innovation and Technology
Eligibility (if available)

At least two partners from two
different countries and at least one partner from industry

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Patient-centred comparative clinical effectiveness research

Date added: 13 May 2020

Research should address the impact of the pandemic on vulnerable populations and how COVID-19 has altered healthcare delivery and healthcare workers' wellbeing, management and training.

Amount
Up to €5M USD
Agency or Funder
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Eligibility (if available)

Private and public sector organisations, education and research institutions, hospitals and healthcare institutions

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Insights from humanities and social sciences into the impact of COVID-19

Date added: 05 May 2020

Primary or secondary research projects should draw on humanities and social sciences to contribute to the understanding of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic.

Amount
£10,000
Agency or Funder
The British Academy
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers of postdoctoral or equivalent level in humanities and social sciences

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Data Science and AI to strengthen public administration responses

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

A call for data processing projects principally in the medical sector to respond to COVID-19 and to contribute to new responses to future pandemics.

Amount
€240,000 per applicant
Agency or Funder
Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
Eligibility (if available)

Non-business entities in the R&I system (higher education institutions, State or international laboratories based in Portugal, private non-profit institutions, other public and private, non-profit institutions)

Date application deadline

Fast-track call for food systems projects

Date added: 20 May 2020

Projects should help with supply chain disruption, consumer behaviour change, food safety risks and nutrition for at risk populations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amount
€800,000 per project
Agency or Funder
EIT Food
Eligibility (if available)

EIT Food partners and organisations applying to be partners. Consortia must have at least two entities from two different countries.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Convert products or activities so that they deal with the challenges of COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Projects should be capable of implementation within 6 to 12 months and focus on the new challenges posed by the outbreak.

Amount
SEK50M
Agency or Funder
Vinnova
Eligibility (if available)

Companies and organisations developing products or actions that could be converted to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 crisis. Project must have at least one developing partner and one partner who will benefit from the project.

Date application deadline

Combatting COVID-19 at national borders

Date added: 29 Apr 2020

Focusing on the vulnerabilities emerging in the COVID-19 pandemic, applicants should propose ways to prevent, contain, and mitigate threats posed by biological and chemical actors at national borders and points of entry.

Amount
Up to $5M (U.S. dollars) per project, total $15M (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
Bureau of International Security-Nonproliferation
Eligibility (if available)

NGOs and academic institutions

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Binational projects based in the University of Mexico or the University of California

Date added: 27 Apr 2020

A call for binational collaborative innovation, product development, and applied research that aims to mitigate the health, social, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Funding available in two stages: $10,000 and $25,000.

Amount
$35.000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
National Autonomous University of Mexico, University of California, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
Eligibility (if available)

Any active member of UC or UNAM (faculty, students, staff, visiting scholars, fellows, etc). Non-faculty researchers must identify a faculty mentor from their institution.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Understanding the pathobiology and clinical implications of SARS-CoV-2

Date added: 29 Apr 2020

Proposals may address the biology of respiratory viruses, epidemiological approaches to them, development of novel therapeutics and vaccines, deciding host factors and individual, regional, or social factors affecting community spread of COVID-19.

Amount
$100.000 (U.S. dollars) per year, for up to two years
Agency or Funder
American Lung Association
Eligibility (if available)

Applicants must hold a PhD and work in a non-profit academic institution

Date application deadline