COVID-19 Funded Research

Overview

The NIH Common Fund received $30 Million from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, 2020 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally. The Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC), which manages the Common Fund is using these funds to stimulate innovative research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). OSC issued immediate funding opportunities in Fiscal Year 2020 for active Common Fund researchers to conduct SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research. Awards issued through these funding opportunities are listed below.

Emergency Competitive Revisions for Research on SARS-COV-2 and COVID-19

The Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC), issued a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Availability of Emergency Competitive Revisions for Research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (NOT-RM-20-015) to stimulate innovative research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

OSC issued emergency competitive revisions to Common Fund grants and cooperative agreements to support innovative research on COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 in areas of research including behavioral/social science, health disparities, and novel therapeutics, that fit within the mission of an emergency response to provide critical expertise, resources or activities. A list of funded projects is available below. Learn more about the awardees and their funded research.

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Availability of Emergency Competitive Revisions for Research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) NOT-RM-20-015
PI Name Institution Name Title Common Fund Program
ASHLEY, EUAN A (contact) 
WHEELER, MATTHEW THOMAS		 STANFORD UNIVERSITY Stanford MoTrPAC Bioinformatics Center 

Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC)
BILAL, USAMA DREXEL UNIVERSITY The Health Consequences of Urban Scaling 

NIH Director's Early Independence Award (EIA)
BRAUN, ROBERT E (contact) 
MURRAY, STEPHEN A 
WHITE, JACQUELINE K 		 JACKSON LABORATORY The Jackson Laboratory Knockout Mouse Production and Phenotyping Project (JAX KOMP2)

Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Program (KOMP2)
DEKOSKY, BRANDON JAMES UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE Antibody Display Libraries for Precision Screening of Antibody Immune Responses to SARS CoV-2

NIH Director's Early Independence Award (EIA)
GOLUB, TODD R. (contact) 
SUBRAMANIAN, ARAVIND		 BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. Discovering Existing Medicines that Abrogate Cellular Responses to SARS CoV-2 Infection 
SANJANA, NEVILLE  NEW YORK GENOME CENTER In situ functional genomics to understand transcriptional regulation

NIH Director's New Innovator Award (NIA)
TULSKY, JAMES A. (contact) 
VOLANDES, ANGELO		 DANA-FARBER CANCER INST A Telehealth Advance Care Planning Intervention for COVID-19 in New York City
ZHANG, HAICHONG   WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Robotic Lung Ultrasound for Triage of COVID-19 Patients in a Resource Limited Environment NIH Director's Early Independence Award (EIA)

2021 NIH Director's Transformative Research Emergency COVID-19 Awards (RFA-RM-20-020)

Due to the public health emergency, the Transformative Research Award and Early Independence Award issued additional funding opportunities for COVID-19-related research on the prevention of, preparation for, or response to coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 using funds provided through the CARES Act.

PI Name Institution Name Title
DEB, ARJUN (contact); ARUMUGASWAMI, VAITHILINGARAJA ; GRAEBER, THOMAS G; PELLEGRINI, MATTEO

 

 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

 

 Metabolic and Epigenetic Reprogramming of Vital Organs in SARS-CoV-2 Induced Systemic Toxicity
MANCEBO, RICARDO

 

 GENENDEAVOR, LLC

 

 Development of a Handheld Rapid Air Sensing System to Monitor and Quantify SARS-CoV-2 in Aerosols in Real-Time
RAY, ANIMESH (contact); HERNANDEZ, JENIFFER BERTHA

 

 KECK GRADUATE INST OF APPLIED LIFE SCIS

 

 Rapid Response for Pandemics: Single Cell Sequencing and Deep Learning to Predict Antibody Sequences Against an Emerging Antigen
WEINBERGER, LEOR S (contact); RODICK, ROBERT

 

 VXBIOSCIENCES, INC.

 

 Autonomously Deploying, Co-Evolving SARS-CoV-2 Antiviral: A New Paradigm for Pandemic Prevention
YAKOUB, ABRAAM M (contact); LAZARTIGUES, ERIC D; TSENG, CHIEN-TE K

 

 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA

 

 SARS-CoV-2 Tropism in the Brain and Its Relationship to COVID-19 Pathogenesis

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