COVID-19 Funding Opportunities

COVID-19 funding opportunities will be added to this page as they are released by the National Institutes of Health and other funding agencies. Please email Marketing and Communications Director Roger Anderson, if you know of any additional opportunities.

Additional Northwestern University COVID-19 Resources

• Northwestern Research COVID-19 updates
• IRB Office COVID-19 Memo to Research Community
• Northwestern's Institute for Public Health and Medicine has created a resource page to gather and disseminate information for the community around COVID-19.
• The Galter Health Sciences Library and Learning Center has cultivated a COVID-19 Resource Guide containing information on the virus, published articles, locally relevant content and more.
• The Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) and the Center for Community Health (CCH) have put together the Chicago COVID-19 Resource Repository, a working document featuring information and resources that may be useful for Chicago community organizations and community members.

National Institutes of Health Resurces

• COVID-19 Resources for Applicants and Recipients of NIH Funding
• NIH Late Application Policy, Administrative Flexibilities, and FAQs Related to 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Guidance for NIH-Funded Clinical Trials and Human Subjects Studies Affected by COVID-19
• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Information for NIH Applicants and Recipients
• OLAW Guidance in Preparing for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak
• Special OLAW Webinar: Pandemic Contingency Planning and Its Impact on Animal Care
• Flexibilities for Assured Institutions for Activities of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUCs) Due to COVID-19
• Guidance for NIH-Funded Clinical Trials and Human Subjects Studies Affected by COVID-19
• General Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - Proposal Submission and Award Management Related to COVID-19
• NIH Late Application Policy Due to Public Health Emergency for United States for 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Flexibilities Available to Applicants and Recipients of Federal Financial Assistance Affected by COVID-19
• FAQs on COVID-19 Flexibilities for Applicants and Recipients

City of Chicago Resources

• Looking for a way to lend your support to fellow Chicagoans in response to covid-19?
• Volunteer to help at an emergency shelter

Other COVID-19 Resources

• The American Heart Association is working to ensure optimal care for patients with cardiovascular disease who contract coronavirus (COVID-19). Patients with underlying cardiovascular diseases appear to have an increased risk for adverse outcomes with COVID-19. Here are some helpful resources for health systems, clinics, care providers, patients and the public.
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital COVID-19 Critical Care Clinical Guidelines
• The National Library of Medicine, through its GenBank® sequence database, is providing the biomedical community free and easy access to genome sequences from the novel coronavirus associated with the recent outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, China. The outbreak was declared a global health emergency on January 30, 2020 and GenBank® continues to rapidly release data associated with this outbreak as it comes in and welcomes sequence data submissions as well. 
• LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus.
• In response to the outbreak in Western Washington, UW Medicine has developed this COVID-19 Resource Site.
• The New England Journal of Medicine has made a collection of articles and other resources on the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, including clinical reports, management guidelines and commentary freely available