Office of Research and Innovation

NIH FUNDING & UPDATES

Grant Name:

NIA Availability of Administrative Supplements and Revision Supplements on Coronavirus Disease 2019

Summary: 

Supports relevant research pertaining to aging populations and mental health services/suicide risk pertaining to the pandemic.

Due Dates: 

5/1/20

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Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program Applications to Address 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Public Heath Need

Summary: 

Supports projects focusing on the use of informatics solutions to diagnose cases and facilitate research on COVID-19 and advance the translation of research findings into diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines.

Due Dates: 

5/4/20 – 9/25/20

(Varies by track;U01,U54,R21)

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Availability of Urgent Competitive Revisions for Research on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

Summary: 

Supports genomic studies utilizing generalized approaches that take advantage of human research or model systems to study the consequences of infection.

Due Dates: 

5/15/20

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NIEHS Worker Training Program Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Response Training

Summary: 

Provides support for the conduct of worker-based training to prevent and reduce exposure of hospital employees, emergency first responders, and other workers who are at risk of exposure.

Due Dates: 

4/24/20

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Partnerships for Countermeasures against Select Pathogens (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)

Summary: 

Solicits research applications for milestone-driven projects focused on preclinical development of lead candidate therapeutics, vaccines and related countermeasures.

Due Dates: 

5/29/20 (LOI), 6/29/20 (Proposal)

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Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program: Exploratory Collaborative Innovation Awards (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)

Summary: 

Supports collaborative research activities that develop innovative solutions that will improve the efficiency, quality and impact of turning laboratory, clinic and community observations into interventions that improve public health.

Due Dates: 

6/11/20 (LOI), 7/11/20 (Proposal)

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Repurposing Existing Therapeutics to Address the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

Summary: 

Funds projects that repurpose existing drugs or biologics that have begun or completed a Phase I clinical trial.

Due Dates: 

6/5/20 – 6/26/20 , (Varies by track;U01,UG3/UH3,U34)

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Availability of Administrative Supplements and Revision Supplements on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Summary: 

Seeks research pertaining to host response, associations with heart, lung, and blood diseases, potential impacts on transfusion safety, and clinical outcomes of infected individuals.

Due Dates: 

10/5/20

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Availability of Emergency Competitive Revisions for Research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Summary: 

Seeks projects focusing on viral natural history, pathogenicity, transmission, as well as projects developing medical countermeasures and suitable animal models for pre-clinical testing of vaccines and therapeutics.

Due Dates: 

3/25/2021

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R01, R21, SBIR/STTR for COVID-19

Summary: 

Three of the largest NIH parent/umbrella funding mechanisms have now been updated to indicate that applications pertaining to COVID-19 research are welcomed.

Due Dates: 

Standard tri-annual dates forR01,R21,SBIR/STTR

FEDERAL FUNDING & UPDATES

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National Emergency Telecritical Care Network (NETCCN) Project for Coronavirus

Summary: 

A pre-annoucement for proposals to rapidly develop and deploy the National Emergency Telecritical Care Network: a cloud-based, low-resource, stand-alone health information management system.

Due Dates: 

Projected mid-May 2020

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Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program

Summary: 

University researchers may serve as subcontractors for any small business’ commercializable R&D pertaining to AF-related COVID-19 topics.

Due Dates: 

4/30/20

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Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

Summary: 

Seeks research for an array of medical countermeasures to diagnose, treat, or protect against COVID-19.

Due Dates: 

10/31/20

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Availability of Urgent Competitive Revisions for Research on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the Causative Virus SARS-CoV-2

Summary: 

Seeks projects to develop predictive models for disease spread; tools for rapid detection; and rapid development of therapeutic agents.

Due Dates: 

2/5/2021

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Prototype Development to Combat COVID-19

Summary: 

A potential request for project proposals for technologies such as point-of-care testing, therapeutics, and patient tracking systems.

Due Dates: 

Projected mid-2020

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Dear Colleague Letter: Provisioning Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to Further Research on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Summary: 

Invites RAPID proposals and supplemental funding requests to existing awards that address COVID-19 challenges through data and/or software infrastructure development activities.

Due Dates: 

Varies by NSF program

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Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Novel Coronavirus EZ-BAA

Summary: 

Seeks research for molecular diagnostic assays, point-of-care detection, screening models, and other topics pertaining to COVID-19.

Due Dates: 

Rolling

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Request for SBIR/STTR Phase I Proposals Addressing COVID-19

Summary: 

University researchers may serve as subcontractors for any small business’ commercializable R&D pertaining to NSF-related COVID-19 topics.

Due Dates: 

Rolling

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Dear Colleague Letter

Summary: 

Encourages scientific questions that underpin COVID-19 response that the research community may answer using DOE user facilities, computational resources, and enabling infrastructure.

Due Dates: 

Rolling

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Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during the COVID-19 Pandemic Synopsis 2

Summary: 

This award will be presented to a single investigator or team of up to two investigators that develops a “transformative idea” to resolve challenges, advance frontiers, and set new paradigms in areas of immense potential benefit to DoD and the nation at large. Proposals should aim to produce novel conceptual frameworks or theory-based approaches that present disruptive ways of thinking about fundamental scientific problems that have evaded resolution, propose new, paradigm-shifting scientific directions, and/or address fundamental and important questions that are argued to be undervalued by the scientific community.

Due Dates: 

May 15, 2020  

FOUNDATIONS / CORPORATE FUNDING & UPDATES

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Flash Grant

Summary: 

Seeks small-scale proposals pertaining to COVID-19 vaccine development, diagnosis, and specific therapies.

Due Dates: 

4/22/20

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AI Techniques to Mitigate Pandemic

Summary: 

Microsoft, C3.ai, and various universities have announced an RFP for using data analytics and AI methods to research COVID-19.

Due Dates: 

5/1/20

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CoVent-19 Challenge

Summary: 

Open innovation eight-week Grand Challenge for engineers, innovators, designers, and makers to create respirator models.

Due Dates: 

5/1/20

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Call for Multidisciplinary Research into Epidemics and Pandemics in Response to the Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2

Summary: 

Encourages international partnerships for projects addressing prevention, early detection, containment, and investigation of the causes, impacts, and management of pandemics.

Due Dates: 

7/1/20

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COVID-19 Research

Summary: 

RSF is accepting LOIs for research that analyzes social, political, economic, or psychological disruptions resulting from COVID-19.

Due Dates: 

5/21/20 (LOI)

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AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative

Summary: 

Amazon has announced $20 million to provide technical support and AWS promotional credits for existing AWS customers to advance diagnostic research.

Due Dates: 

Rolling

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Google Cloud Research Credits

Summary: 

A total of $20 million in Google Cloud research credits will be provided for leveraging Google’s computing capabilities and infrastructure to study therapies, vaccines, etc.

Due Dates: 

Rolling

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Elevate Prize Foundation Welcomes Nominations, Applications for Inaugural Elevate Prize Competition

Summary: 

Through the competition, cash awards of at least of $300,000 over two years will be awarded to a cohort of ten "global heroes" working to address any challenge related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, including effective responses to emerging pandemics and global health security threats....

Due Dates: 

June 29, 2020