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.

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

COVID-19 research in any scientific field by researchers from Switzerland and Asia

Date added: 03 Jul 2020

Funding for collaborative projects between researchers from Switzerland and China, Japan, South Korea or the ASEAN Region in any discipline.

Amount
Up to 25,000 CHF
Agency or Funder
ETH Zürich
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers from Switzerland and Asian countries

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Grants to secure access to data or research materials

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Proposals have to demonstrate an urgent need to secure future access to data or other research materials

Amount
Variable (depends on cost of urgent needs)
Agency or Funder
Formas
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers with doctoral degree from a Swedish university, college or other Swedish public organisation

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Second BSAC Funding call

Date added: 03 Jul 2020

A call for studies involving researchers from LMICs, or the impact of the virus on LMICs, which address the impact of COVID-19 on antimicrobial resistance.

Amount
$1M
Agency or Funder
British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Eligibility (if available)

Worldwide open call. Researchers from LMICs are encouraged. See terms and conditions for grants.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
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

Investigating COVID-19 to prepare Sweden for the next crisis

Date added: 19 Jun 2020

Funding for research, reviews of research, and preparatory projects that aim to increase society’s preparedness and resilience in order to address future crises.

Amount
SEK 500,000–1 M
Agency or Funder
Formas and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency
Eligibility (if available)

Lead applicant must hold a PhD. Grants must be administered by a Swedish institution

Date application deadline

Funding for research into mechanisms of immunoregulation

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Grants to identify key immune regulatory genes, signaling pathways, or mechanisms to contribute to the knowledge of the pathogenesis of infectious diseases.

Amount
$275,000 (for two- year project)
Agency or Funder
National Institutes of Health (NIH) - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Eligibility (if available)

Higher Education Institutions, Nonprofits and For-Profit Organizations,State Governments ini the US.

Date application deadline

A special request for technology-driven proposals to address the COVID-19 pandemic

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The call will support Principal Investigators from a CITRIS campus to address COVID-19 from technological angle.

Amount
$50,000 (U.S dollars) per project
Agency or Funder
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and Banatao Institute
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers with Principal Investigator status on any of the four CITRIS campuses: UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced, and UC Santa Cruz

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Czech support for applied social sciences and humanities

Date added: 08 May 2020

Support for research aimed at mitigating negative societal impacts and seizing new opportunities in response to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, especially in social, educational, economic and cultural fields, and the media.

Amount
Up to CZK4M with total funding of CZK100M
Agency or Funder
Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
Eligibility (if available)

Companies, research organisations and non-profit organisations.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

COVID-19 humanities and social sciences research in Canada

Date added: 13 May 2020

Projects should aim to understand the impact of the pandemic, design and implement recovery measures, or build long-term disaster preparedness plans.

Amount
$7,000 - $25,000 (CAD)
Agency or Funder
The Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers or teams of researchers affiliated with a Canadian university. Foreign universities can be co-applicants

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Social sciences and humanities research in Canadian universities

Date added: 25 May 2020

Projects should aim to understand the different social, political and economic impacts of pandemics, design or implement recovery measures, and build long-term resilience and preparedness.

Amount
$7,000 to $25,000 CAD
Agency or Funder
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers affiliated to Canadian postsecondary institutions; international institutions accepted as co-applicants.

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

Short-term projects addressing and mitigating the impact of COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries

Date added: 28 May 2020

Projects should relate to resilience, security protracted conflict, refugee crises and forced displacement, cities and sustainable infrastructure, food systems, education and global health in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amount
Not specified
Agency or Funder
UK Research and Innovation
Eligibility (if available)

Applicants outside of the UK can apply either as principal investigators if their organisations led or have led and held UKRI grants, or as members partnering with UK-based principal investigators

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Austrian funding for research on therapeutics, and on social, economic, and legal impacts of SARS-CoV-2

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

An interdisciplinary call for proposals for researchers based in Austria to address the prevention, early detection, containment, causes and effects of diseases such as SARS-CoV-2. Proposals from other disciplines are also welcome.

Agency or Funder
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Eligibility (if available)

Applicants based in Austria

Date application deadline

Aiding industrial competitiveness through R&D in COVID-19 technologies

Date added: 12 May 2020

Projects must combine industrial and research partners and be focused on therapeutics and technologies.

Amount
Minimum of €4M, maximum of €50M (or potentially more)
Agency or Funder
Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and Bpifrance
Eligibility (if available)

Research teams must be based on a partnership between industrial and research actors

Date application deadline

AMable: Fighting shortages in products and problems in medical care

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Provide solutions, involving additive manufacturing, to a set of challenges including a lack of equipment, helpful tools, replacement parts or parts that enable additional functionality

Amount
€350,000
Agency or Funder
AMable consortium
Eligibility (if available)

Individuals or companies registered within the EU or in a country linked to Horizon 2020. Research and technology development organisations are not eligible, nor consortia.

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Improving outcomes in people with cystic fibrosis

Date added: 06 Jul 2020

The research should determine how susceptible cystic fibrosis (CF) cells are to COVID-19, identify and evaluate responses to the virus in people with CF, and understand how commonly prescribed medications used in CF may alter responses to the viru

Amount
Up to $125,000 USD per year
Agency or Funder
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Eligibility (if available)

Applicants must be independent investigators

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Applied Research to Address The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Emerging Public Health Emergency

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center of Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) issues this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) under the provisions of FAR 35.016 and FAR 6.102(d)(2) which provides for the compet

Amount
$10M (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Eligibility (if available)

educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, not for profit organizations, state and local government, and private industry for research and development

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Initiating Phase I/II clinical trials on patients at risk or already infected

Date added: 05 May 2020

Projects should leverage clinical trials expertise to rapidly intiate clinical trials for prevention and/or treatment for COVID-19

Amount
Not limited
Agency or Funder
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Eligibility (if available)

Must already possess an NHLBI Phase I-III clinical trial award

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline