COVID-19 Grants and Funding News

Important news from NIH for grantees and grant applicants on the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

• Funding opportunities specific to COVID-19 from the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER)

• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) information for NIH grant applicants and grant recipients from the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER)

• Coronavirus news, funding and resources for global health researchers compiled by Fogarty, with major revisions published July 15

Funding Opportunities

NIH funding opportunities focusing on global health and foreign collaboration.

• Reminder: NIH is launching Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa), an NIH Common Fund program, to explore how advances in data science applied in the African context can spur new health discoveries and catalyze innovation. Publication dates of NIH DS-I Africa Funding Opportunity Announcements are estimated for July 2020.

  Registration is open to participate in interactive components of the DS-I Africa Virtual Symposium Platform. The Platform will be open from July through November 2020 with several online events and networking tools available to participants.

  > Register for the DS-I Africa Virtual Symposium Platform

NIH funding opportunities for which foreign organizations, foreign components of U.S. organizations and/or other foreign components may apply.

• NIDA Core "Center of Excellence" Grant Program (P30 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-20-267)
  Application Receipt Date(s): September 25, 2020, September 27, 2021, September 26, 2022
• Integrative Research to Understand the Impact of Sex Differences on the Molecular Determinants of AD Risk and Responsiveness to Treatment (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-20-269)
  Application Receipt Date(s): November 10, 2020
• BRAIN Initiative: Tools for Germline Gene Editing in Marmosets (U01 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-DA-21-006)
  Application Receipt Date(s): October 15, 2020 and October 14, 2021

NIH Notices of Special Interest (NOSIs) that may be of interest to global health researchers.

• Notice of Special Interest: Epidemiology and Prevention in Alcohol Research (NOT-AA-20-017)
• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Methods Development in Natural Products Research (SBIR/STTR) (NOT-AT-20-015)
• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Stimulating Intervention Research to Reduce Cardiopulmonary Impacts of Particulate Matter in Air Pollution among High-Risk Populations (NOT-HL-20-788)

Information related to opportunities from other organizations focusing on global health and foreign collaboration.

• Generating evidence to strengthen intersectionality and gender research efforts in infectious disease prevention and control from TDR is open for individual or collaborative research proposals from LMIC institutions working on public health, gender and intersectionality research, implementation research, infectious disease prevention and control.
  Application deadline: August 17, 2020
• Sustaining Technical and Analytical Resources (STAR) is accepting applications for its open fellowship and internship positions in Uzbekistan, Cambodia, South Africa, Malawi, Chad and the US. STAR, a project of the Public Health Institute, is supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
  Application due date: August 31, 2020

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