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These are articles in the press, or even well written personal essays, on how blockchain technology can or should be applied to the challenges.
- How Blockchain and AI Are Being Used in the Fight Against Covid19, Brennan B., Blockchain Healthcare Review, April 6, 2020
How A Coronavirus ‘Data Vault’ Could Help Re-Open The Economy In Four Weeks, Nishan Degnarain, Forbes, Mar 30 2020
Five Ways Blockchain Can Unblock The Coronavirus Medical Supply Chain, Nishan Degnarain, Forbes, Mar 22 2020
- China: Blockchain Deployment Rises Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Cointelegraph, Feb 17 2020
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Funding/Support from Around the World
- Global
Grant Opportunities Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic. GrantStation is now offering a filtering service for globally-available COVID-19 virus grants for non-profits and small businesses.
- Canada
- 31, 2020,
the honourable Patty Hajdu, Canada’s Minister of Health, announced an additional investment of $25M to the Canadian 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Rapid Research competition. This additional funding is a portion of the $275M dedicated for COVID-19 research as announced by the Prime Minister on March 11, 2020. With this investment, CIHR will be - through a contribution from Research Manitoba, Research Nova Scotia, and Alberta Innovates, CIHR was able to fund an additional
49 - three grants,
which brings - bringing the total number of funded grants
funded - to
96 - 99 and a total investment of
$52.6M- Ireland
- Health Research Board (HRB). The research priorities of this call are aligned with the WHO R&D Blueprint and informed by the Global Infectious Disease Collaboration for International Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R)$54.2M.
Funding/Support in the US
- National Cancer Institute (NCI) Funding Opportunities for Small Businesses (SBIRs/STTRs). Updated MAR 27. The NCI participates in the NIH-issued SBIR and an STTR Omnibus grant solicitation for small businesses, which allow small businesses to submit researcher-initiated projects that are within NIH’s mission.
- National Institute of Health (NIH) Funding Opportunities. Updated MAR 26. Urgent Competitive Revision to Existing NIH Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Urgent Supplement - Clinical Trial Optional) recently updated through "Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Availability of Administrative Supplements and Revision Supplements on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)." Additional details available here.
- Additional COVID-19 Funding Opportunities
- UC Davis Office of Research provides a regularly updated set of links tied to COVID-19 funding opportunities across numerous US agencies, including Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Institute of Health (NIH), and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Gates Foundation.
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