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.

Personal protection: innovative products and technological solutions

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Solutions will aim to protect service providers and caregivers from COVID-19 and to minimize the risk of transmission with personal protective and medical equipment.

Amount
Not specified yet
Agency or Funder
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Serbia
Eligibility (if available)

Public companies, commercial organisations/businesses, research institutions registered in Serbia

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

CITRIS Seed funding for transformative technology and policy solutions

Date added: 05 May 2020

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

Short-term solutions for the COVID-19 emergency in Paraguay

Date added: 11 May 2020

Funding for public and private research into COVID-19 in the areas of epidemiological studies, diagnostics, therapeutics, behavioural science, mental health, and the development of medical and ICT devices.

Amount
PYG 300M to PYG 1B, up to 90% of project costs
Agency or Funder
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Paraguay
Eligibility (if available)

Universities, NGOs, private and public sector organisations

Date application deadline

Rapid solutions to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and inform the public-health response

Date added: 11 May 2020

Funding for organisations with solutions that can be implemented immediately to contribute to support decision-making, as well as to inform the clinical and public health response.

Amount
Not specified
Agency or Funder
Government of Ontario
Eligibility (if available)

Universities and colleges, research hospitals, non-profit research institutes

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Multidisciplinary call for projects

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

A broad-based call for research with goals deliverable in the short term.

Amount
MEX$ 5M
Agency or Funder
CONACYT (National Council of Science and Technology)
Eligibility (if available)

Research institutes, organisations and MSMEs registered at the Mexican National Register of R&D Institutions and companies

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Rapid development, deployment and testing of the National Emergency Telecritical Care Network

Date added: 05 May 2020

Projects should use integrated technologies and clinical workflows to contribute to traditional and non-traditional and temporary healthcare facilities.

Amount
$7M (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
Eligibility (if available)

Applicants offered support will need to be or become members of the MTEC consortium.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Redirect existing research towards the mitigation and prevention of the effects of the outbreak

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The goal of this call is to redirect projects funded by the Academy of Finland towards COVID-19 research.

Amount
€8.45M
Agency or Funder
Academy of Finland
Eligibility (if available)

Principal investigators must already have funding from the Academy of Finland. The funding cannot be used to launch entirely new research or new research consortia.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

An opportunity for local women’s organisations to respond to COVID-19 in crisis settings

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Funding for projects that focus on working on women, peace and security and humanitarian issues; and on providing gender-responsive responses to the COVID19 crisis.

Amount
$200,000 (U.S dollars)
Agency or Funder
Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF)
Eligibility (if available)

Civil-society organizations in all 25 WPHF eligible countries

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Startups vs COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Developing technological solutions, products or services to tackle the economic, societal and health impact of the pandemic.

Amount
€150,000 per project
Agency or Funder
Ministry of the Economy
Eligibility (if available)

All types of young companies with less than 5 years of existence, established in Luxembourg

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Consortia sought to accelerate developments on COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The projects will focus on prophylactics, therapeutics and diagnostics to contribute in the short term to dealing with the current outbreak. Proposals must be made by a consortium to increase their likelihood of impact.

Amount
€50,000 - €300,000 per project
Agency or Funder
Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (FWO)
Eligibility (if available)

Private companies, academia, international organisations, public bodies (preferably including a Flemish hospital or a Belgian government agency active in the field of care and public health)

Date application deadline

Digitisation in a time of crisis

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Proposals are sought on the benefits or costs of digitisation in a time of crisis. A proposal could be in partnership with a government, private sector or NGO with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.

Amount
$250,000 per project (U.S dollars)
Agency or Funder
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Eligibility (if available)

J-PAL affiliates, J-PAL postdocs, and DigiFI Africa invited researchers. African scholars based at an African academic institution in sub-Saharan Africa and based outside Africa

Date application deadline

COVID-19 Rapid response proposals for Tufts University reseachers

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Proposals should generate new knowledge and/or change clinical practice with focus on treatmet and diagnosis.

Amount
$300,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
Tufts University and Tufts Medical Center
Eligibility (if available)

Employees of Tufts University or Tufts Medical Center, but applicants may partner with collaborators at community-based, local non-profit organisations

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

Fast-track grant for research on non-animal approaches to investigate mechanisms, medicines, and vaccines for COVID-19

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

The aim of the call is to gather information and stimulate funding of the development of non-animal, human biology-based models to help coordinate and accelerate responses to current and emerging pandemics

Amount
up to $40,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
Eligibility (if available)

Academic group, non-profit, or small or medium enterprise

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Transatlantic call for new coronavirus treatment proposals

Date added: 05 May 2020

A call for novel therapies, broad-spectrum antivirals, next-generation vaccines that may target new corona strains, multiple corona viruses or more than one type of virus, and strategies for first responders and emergency medical personnel.

Amount
$150.000 (U.S.) guaranteed, with the potential to receive up to $1 million
Agency or Funder
Harrington Discovery Institute
Eligibility (if available)

Project lead must have an MD, PhD or equivalent and based in the U.S., UK or Canada. 

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Postdoctoral Fellowship in COVID-19 Pathogenesis

Date added: 06 May 2020

One postdoctoral position is available at the Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Microbial Pathogenesis, São Paulo, Brazil, for research into the role of inflammatory cytokines in COVID-19.

Amount
Up to 7.373 BRL
Agency or Funder
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Eligibility (if available)

PhD holders, preferably specialised in celular and molecular biology, biochemistry and epidemiology

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

Grants available for researchers in Belgium

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Funding to support reasearchers from FNRS and universities of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Priorities lie on epidemiological and translational studies, immunology and prevention of the virus.

Amount
€60,000
Agency or Funder
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
Eligibility (if available)

Researchers from FNRS or the six universities part of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (ULB, UCLouvain, ULiege, UMons, UNamur, USL)

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

CDC launches Coronavirus Response Fellowships

Date added: 23 Apr 2020

Research opportunity on COVID-19 response with emphasis on cross-coordination of federal disaster recovery efforts and public health-specific needs.

Agency or Funder
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Eligibility (if available)

Degree candidates or holders in one of the relevant fields from the U.S. territories and Freely Associated States.

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline

An open innovation effort to design a rapidly deployable mechanical ventilator

Date added: 05 May 2020

The CoVent-19 Challenge is fostering the innovation of a rapidly deployable, minimum viable mechanical ventilator for patients with COVID-19 related ventilator-dependent lung injury.

Amount
$10,000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
CoVent-19 Challenge
Eligibility (if available)

Engineers, innovators, designers

Foreign participation? (where known)
Yes
Date application deadline

The impacts of COVID-19 on health services, access, outcomes and costs.

Date added: 05 May 2020

Proposals should produce new knowledge on the healthcare response to the pandemic, identify challenges and generate data to address the many facets of the evolving pandemic.

Amount
$25.000 (U.S. dollars)
Agency or Funder
UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, the Center for Health and Technology, and the Behavioral Health Center of Excellence
Eligibility (if available)

All full-time members of the UC Davis faculty

Foreign participation? (where known)
No
Date application deadline