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Highlighted Funding Opportunities from Research Professional and Pivot

The Research Professional and Pivot^® funding services are providing free access to a list of select funding opportunities related to combatting the coronavirus and COVID-19. By raising awareness of these resources, which are offered from a wide range of global funders, we hope to help researchers expand their scholarly efforts to understand and contend with this global pandemic.

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Notice of special interest – research on alcohol and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) within the mission of NIAAA

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
This supports applications that advance understanding of critical interactions between alcohol use, SARS-CoV-2, and COVID-19.
Closing date: 06 Mar 2024
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Addressing Accessibility Inequities with COVID Home-Based Testing for Individuals with Visual Impairment

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
The National Eye Institute (NEI) is issuing this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to support research addressing the urgent need to provide accessible home-based COVID testing to people who are visually impaired.
Closing date: 09 Mar 2024
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Notice of Special Interest: Administrative Supplements and Urgent Competitive Revisions on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) within the Mission of NIAAA

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
The NOSI invites administrative supplements and competitive revisions to existing grants and cooperative agreements that advance understanding of critical interactions between alcohol, SARS-CoV-2, and COVID-19. A principal area of focus is research that can improve public health in the near term by informing responses to the current COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences.
Closing date: 07 May 2024
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Promoting Vaccine Access, Acceptance and Uptake among Children, Adolescents, Pregnant and Lactating Women, and Persons with Disabilities

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
This NOSI encourages applications that address dimensions of access, acceptance and uptake of CDC-recommended vaccines among infants, children, adolescents, pregnant and lactating women, and persons with disabilities, especially among populations who are underserved or experience health disparities.
Closing date: 08 May 2024
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Notice of special interest – administrative supplements and urgent competitive revisions on coronavirus disease 2019 within the mission of NIAAA

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
This supports existing grants and cooperative agreements that advance understanding of critical interactions between alcohol, SARS-CoV-2, and COVID-19. Application budgets are generally limited to USD 100,000 per year for up to two years.
Closing date: 08 May 2024
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) – Administrative Supplements for Research of Emerging and Existing Issues of COVID-19 Related to the Health and Well-Being of Women, Children and Individuals with Physical and/or Intellectual Disabilities

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide an opportunity for funded researchers in these various fields to pursue supplemental funding to conduct research addressing these emerging and other existing COVID-related issues among pregnant and lactating people, infants, children and adolescents, and individuals with physical and/or intellectual disabilities. The goal of this NOSI is to not replace or to compete with the various COVID-related funding opportunities currently available. Instead, the purpose is to complement them by offering a funding opportunity for currently funded investigators to address key issues not currently covered by available COVID-related funding announcements among these populations. It is hoped that the use of administrative supplements will foster research in these key areas in the most timely manner. Research projects addressing issues that are the focus of currently available or future COVID funding opportunity announcements will be encouraged to submit to those announcements. Also, applicants responding to this NOSI are strongly encouraged to describe plans for the rapid sharing of data and results as well as innovative data analytics approaches. The sharing of COVID-related data and resources and the effective communication of results are a high priority of the NIH.
Closing date: 05 Jun 2024
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Notice of special interest – emerging and existing issues of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) research related to the health and well-Being of women, children and individuals with physical and/or intellectual disabilities

NIH: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
This supports research on emerging and existing COVID-related issues among pregnant and lactating people, infants, children and adolescents, and individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities not covered by existing COVID-19 NIH research.
Closing date: 06 Jun 2024
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): The Influence of Host Resilience on Heterogeneity of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome/Acute Lung Injury (ARDS/ALI)

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is to inform potential applicants of the special interest of NHLBI in research to understand host resilience as a critical determinant of outcomes in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) /acute lung injury (ALI).

This NOSI seeks to support investigation into the factors and molecular mechanisms that address the heterogeneity dictated by the host resilience. Research on general host responses to injurious challenges and their effects on lung function as well as mechanisms that impact susceptibility to ARDS is not considered to be responsive to this announcement.
Closing date: 05 Jul 2024
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Administrative Supplements for the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program to Address COVID-19 Public Health Needs

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) is issuing this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to highlight the urgent need for projects that address the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program is uniquely qualified to contribute to these efforts.
Closing date: 16 Aug 2024
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Effects of smoking and vaping on the risk and outcome of COVID-19 infection

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
The purpose of this notice is to communicate NIDA’s interest in supporting research on the effects of smoking or vaping tobacco or marijuana on the risk of acquiring COVID-19 and the clinical course of the infection. This Notice is a reissuance of NOT-DA-20-084.
Closing date: 07 Sep 2024
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Notice of special interest – long-term neurocognitive consequences of COVID-19 in individuals living with HIV and substance use disorders

NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse
This supports research with a focus on the study of the long-term neurocognitive consequences of the COVID-19, HIV and substance use disorder syndemic.
Closing date: 08 Sep 2024
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Notice of special interest – medical consequences of smoking and vaping drugs of abuse in individuals with HIV and COVID-19

NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse
This supports research focused on individuals with HIV who smoke or vape marijuana, tobacco, cocaine or methamphetamine, to determine the long-term effects of their use among individuals with HIV and COVID-19.
Closing date: 08 Sep 2024
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Sex and Gender Differences in Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
This NOSI promotes multidisciplinary research to clarify sex and gender differences in the risk, development, progression, diagnosis, and clinical presentation of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias (ADRD). Example research topics include sex and gender differences in COVID-19 infection and subsequent short-term and long-term cognitive health as well as Sex and gender differences in COVID-19 outcomes among individuals living with AD/ADRD.
Closing date: 13 Nov 2024
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Notice of special interest – COVID-19 pandemic mental health research

NIH: National Institute of Mental Health
This supports basic, translational, intervention and services research on the risks, mechanisms, and treatment in response to COVID-19 among individuals at risk for, or experiencing mental disorders across the lifespan.
Closing date: 08 Jan 2025
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) Pediatric COVID-19 and Respiratory Viral Co-infection

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
This NOSI is intended to support projects that will employ existing and new clinical trial cohorts/observational cohorts to screen for co-infection, phenotype and collect biospecimens to answer some of these questions and to encourage investigator-initiated applications for basic, translational and human subject research (not clinical trials) in this space.
Closing date: 07 Sep 2025
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Urgency grants

Natural Environment Research Council
These support proposals related to the coronavirus outbreak. The maximum total project funding is £65,000 over one year.
Closing date: None
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Support to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic

Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe
This enables researchers to access computing resources to contribute to the mitigation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Access will be awarded for between three and six months and sized from 30 to 50 million core hours.
Closing date: None
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COVID-19 Fast Track Access

Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CERIC-ERIC) (CERIC)
To facilitate research on COVID-19, CERIC has set up a dedicated Fast Track Access to a selected number of instruments, including 600 and 800 MHz NMR, SAXS light scattering laboratory, Cryo EM, synchrotron beamlines for Small Angle X-Ray Scatterings (SAXS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Synchrotron Infrared Source for Spectroscopy and Imaging.
Closing date: None
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COVID-19 call for genomic solutions

Genome Canada | Génome Canada
This supports research or innovation projects aimed at tackling COVID-19 and preventing similar pandemics in the future.
Closing date: None
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COVID-19 rapid access call

Diamond Light Source
This provides rapid access for groups who require Diamond instrument time for projects directly related to SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins.
Closing date: None
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Peace and recovery programme – COVID-19

Innovations for Poverty Action
This supports time-sensitive research or additions to research projects that study or support the COVID-19 response. Grants are worth up to USD 50,000.
Closing date: None
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Covid-19 scientific research

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
This supports urgent research projects on covid-19 by enabling researchers to access ESRF facilities.
Closing date: None
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Space for UK on COVID-19 – open call

UK Space Agency
The tenderer will facilitate the quick integration and deployment of concrete and sustainable solutions to help alleviate the stress on the UK healthcare ecosystem provoked by the COVID-19 outbreak, making use of the different advantages provided by space-based products and services. Funding covers up to 80 per cent of the proposed activities.
Closing date: None
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COVID-19 research grants

Google
These support researchers working on urgent public health challenges associated with COVID-19. Credits may be used to access computing software.
Closing date: None
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Special rapid access COVID-19

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
This supports access to the MX2 macromolecular chrystallography beamline for those currently involved in COVID-19 research. Access consists of short mini-shifts of MX2 beamtime.
Closing date: None
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Wales and Africa immediate COVID-19 response

Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA)
In response to this unprecedented circumstance, this Wales and Africa immediate COVID-19 Response round will fund requests for Welsh groups to work with African partners to respond to immediate issues arising from the outbreak of COVID-19.
Closing date: None
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Fast funding for COVID-19 science

Emergent Ventures
This supports researchers working on a COVID-19 related project. Grants are worth between USD 10,000 and USD 500,000.
Closing date: None
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Fast track access to biological and biomedical imaging technologies for COVID-19 research projects

Euro-Bioimaging ERIC
This provides COVID-19 related research projects with access to imaging facility nodes.
Closing date: None
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Activate funding programme

Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre
This seeks to stimulate and incentivise investment in Australian manufacturing R&D, particularly with SMEs. Projects that deliver outcomes regarding COVID-19 or environmental and sustainability outcomes are of particular interest. Projects can be funded with AUD 50,000 to AUD 100,000 for shorter-term projects with a duration of six to 12 months, and up to AUD 150,000 for longer-term projects over more than 15 months.
Closing date: None
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Community engagement grant

Poul Due Jensen’s Foundation | Poul Due Jensens Fond
This supports local Grundfos companies’ engagement and collaboration with NGOs, institutions, authorities and philanthropic initiatives in locations where Grundfos operates. The total budget is worth DKK 20 million.
Closing date: None
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Emergency route for time-critical COVID-19 research

UK Research and Innovation
This supports short term time-sensitive collection of data or samples or rapid turn-around research or analysis to either inform urgent policy or national decision making or secure data for future research use. Grants are worth up to £80,000 for between three to six months.
Closing date: None
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Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Project to Support America’s Families and Educators (Project SAFE) Grant Program Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.184N

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE)
United States Department of Education (ED)
The Project SAFE grant program provides grants to eligible LEAs to improve student safety and well-being by advancing strategies consistent with CDC guidance to reduce transmission of COVID–19 in schools.
Closing date: None
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Access to COVID-19 data research hub

Health Research Board
This enables clinicians, service managers, policy makers and researchers to further understand and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Closing date: None
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Mercury project call for proposals

Social Science Research Council
This supports research projects on how to combat health mis- and disinformation and to increase the uptake of reliable health information in response to a pandemic. Projects may last for up to 30 months. There is no maximum award amount.
Closing date: None
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COVID-19 rapid access call

Macromolecular and microfocus crystallography – special rapid access COVID-19

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
This supports access to the MX2 macromolecular chrystallography beamline for those currently involved in COVID-19 research. Access consists of short mini-shifts of at least two hours of MX2 beamtime.
Closing date: None
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Build on existing COVID-19 infrastructure, partnerships and resources

Medical Research Council
This supports newly established infrastructure, partnerships and resources to continue to build and develop sustaining high-value collaborative activities and capabilities arising from the COVID-19 pandemic response. Funding may last for between one and five years.
Closing date: None
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Fast funding for COVID-19 science

SARS-COV-2 and COVID‑19 call

ISIDORE
This supports research relevant to SARS-COV-2 and COVID‑19.
Closing date: None
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Independent Medical Education (IME)

Genentech
Roche
Grant requests must identify unmet educational needs of a target audience and demonstrate how the program will address the unmet educational needs, and encourage the improvement of medicine and healthcare. The selection of medium and format should be commensurate with the educational needs, the audience, learning preferences, geography, content, and other factors that contribute to educational effectiveness. Genentech/Roche will consider funding requests in various disease states including COVID.
Closing date: None
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Last updated: 21st Nov 2023