Funding for COVID-19 Research

Private Foundations: Current Requests for Proposals: A thorough list of funding opportunities for researchers working on COVID-related projects.

OVPR COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants [Closed]: For small-scale research projects designed to address and mitigate the risk associated with the coronavirus pandemic, including cascading impacts in communities.

Office of Academic and Clinical Affairs (OACA) CO:VID Grants [Closed]: For small-scale research projects designed to address and mitigate the COVID-19 virus. There is also a OACA COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants - Clinical, with a primary focus on funding clinical research.

COVID 19: External Medical Research Funding Opportunities is a list of external medical research funding that is updated by Medical School staff.

COVID-19 Medical Education Innovation Grants: These funds are granted to develop education (basic science or clinical) and simulation projects related to COVID-19, more general pandemic-related knowledge and skills or professional development activities that would be possible during this stay-at-home order.

Federal Update & Opportunities (UMN/Lewis-Burke Associates) (July 31, 2020): Includes research opportunities across all federal agencies and is updated daily.

Proposals are requested for provisional NSF Funding: NSF Provisioning Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to Further Research (COVID-19).

Luminary Labs’ Open Innovation Index includes challenges, hackathons, open data projects and open-source hardware projects.

Office of Discovery and Translation (ODAT) is requesting applications to identify and fund early-stage projects in which the primary goal is to develop solutions that address direct or indirect healthcare impacts created or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.