COVID-19 Funded Research | NIH Common Fund

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	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	Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures (LINCS)
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	HCS Research Collaboratory (NIH Collaboratory)
ZHANG, HAICHONG	WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE	Robotic Lung Ultrasound for Triage of COVID-19 Patients in a Resource Limited	NIH Director's Early Independence Award (EIA)