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Fast Funding for COVID-19 Science
Science funding mechanisms are too slow in normal times and may be much too slow during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fast Grants are an effort to correct this. Fast Grants are $10k to $500k and decisions are made in under 48 hours.
Eligiblity
You must be:
- A PI at an academic institution;
- Already working on a project that could help with the COVID-19 pandemic within the next six months;
- In need of additional funding to complete the project.
- Researchers outside the US are eligible for funding.
Fast Grant can be used solely to expedite COVID-19-related science. Beyond that, the grant recipient has complete discretion over how it is spent.
Fast Grants open at 12:00 Pacific Time on Tuesday, April 7, 2020.
Conditions
- PI must use the grant to work on COVID-19-related science.
- For six months, PI must send monthly updates to the sponsor, summarizing your progress. These updates can be as simple as a single-paragraph email.
- PI must upload all manuscripts reporting work supported by the grant to a preprint server such as bioRxiv or arXiv upon submission to a peer-reviewed journal.
- In line with Gates Foundation policy, will pay at most 10% in overhead costs to the university.
For more information, please visit the website.
*SFU Signature Sheet and a copy of the application is due to ors@sfu.ca no later than 3 business days before submitting the application. Applicant (not ORS) submits the applicaiton on the agency portal. 10% of direct costs should be included in the budget as overhead.
Reminder: Based on the revision of Postdoctoral fellow(PDF) policy (R50.03), please continue to include 14% of PDF benefit in all your proposal budgets.