COVID-19 Funding Opportunities

AHRC

• Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Urgency Grants pilot - Open until 31 Oct 2020

BMA

• COVID-19 Grant (for UK-registered medical practitioners or research scientists in the UK) - Closed

BSAC

• A COVID-19 funding call to support researchers in microbiology in better understanding and addressing COVID-19 outbreak. - Closed 

DFID

• Frontier Tech 4 COVID Action: emerging market ventilation systems. Frontier Tech are looking for an existing, proven technology that can be rapidly adapted to be built in the UK. - Closed

EC

• Advancing knowledge for the clinical and public health response to the 2019-nCoV epidemic - Closed
• Development of therapeutics and diagnostics combatting coronavirus infections - Closed

Elrha

• Research to support COVID-19 response in humanitarian settings - Closed

LifeArc COVID-19 Fund

• Identification of therapeutics that can be rapidly deployed to treat COVID-19 - Closed

MRC

• COVID-19 Rapid Response Rolling Call - Open until 1 Apr 2021
• COVID-19 Rapid Response Call - Active intervention development - Closed
• COVID-19 Rapid Response Call - Diagnosing and understanding COVID-19 - Closed

NERC

• Urgency proposals related to the current Coronavirus outbreak. Research must fall predominantly within the NERC remit. - Ongoing
• COVID-19 public engagement grant with environmental science - Closed.

NIHR

• Global Effort on COVID-19 (GECO) Health Research - Closed
• COVID-19 Rapid Response Rolling Call - Open until 31 Dec 2020
• Public Health Research Programme Rapid Funding Scheme - Open until 31 Dec 2020
• Travel and subsistence funding to support LMIC engagement during the COVID-19 outbreak - (pdf) - Open until 31 Dec 2020
• Highlight notice - risk factors, transmission and prevalence of SARS-CoV-2. - Closed
• Highlight notice - COVID-19 and ethnicity - Closed
• Research to support COVID-19 response in humanitarian settings - Closed

Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)

• PRACE computing resource support to mitigate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. - Ongoing

Turing Institute

• COVID-19 rapid response data science taskforce.  - Closed

UKRI

• Projects addressing and mitigating the health, social, economic and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak. - Ongoing
• Switch existing funding to COVID-19 priority areas. - Ongoing

Wellcome Trust/DFID

• Epidemic Preparedness: COVID-19 funding call - Closed