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Resources for Conducting COVID-19 Research
Access the latest COVID-19 funding opportunities, data and visualizations, and collaboration opportunities
COVID-19 Funding Opportunities
- CFI Exceptional Opportunities Competition for COVID-19
(Program Info, Research Alert) - CIHR Operating Grants: COVID-19 Mental Health And Substance Use Service Delivery Need Response To COVID-19 – Operating Grants
(Program Info, Research Alert) - Fast-Grants : Fast Funding for COVID-19 Science – Applications Currently paused
(Program Info, Research Alert) - Genome Canada rapid response funding for COVID-19 research
(Program Info) - Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) – COVID19 Challenge
(Program Info, Research Alert, Research Alert2; Moral Injuries to Frontline Workers and First Responders – Research Alert3) - Mitacs: Special Mitacs internships during COVID-19
(Program Info, Research Alert) - National Research Council of Canada (NRC) – COVID-19 funding opportunities Challenge Stream
(Program Info, Research Alert, Research Alert 2) - NIH POCTRN: Fast-Track Program for COVID-19 Test Development and Distribution
(Program Info, Research Alert) - NSERC Alliance COVID-19 Grants
(Program Info, Research Alert) - SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants COVID-19 Special Initiative
(Program Info, Research Alert)
CLOSED:
- CIFAR AI & COVID-19 Catalyst Grants
(Program Info, Funding Decision) - CIHR COVID-19 May 2020 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity – Extended Deadline
(Program Info, Research Alert, Research Alert 2) - CIHR Grants: Mental Health And Substance Use Response To COVID-19 – Knowledge Synthesis
(Program Info, Research Alert) - Canadian Frailty Network: RFP Frailty and COVID-19
(Program Info) - Digital Technology Supercluster – COVID-19 Program
(Program Info, Research Alert) - FAFM-CFP: COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Impact Grant Program (Co-RIG)
(Program Info) - Harrington Discovery Institute – Harrington Scholar Award for Coronavirus
(Program Info, Research Alert) - LifeArc COVID-19 therapeutics
(Program Info, Research Alert) - National Research Council of Canada: The Pandemic Response Challenge Program
(Program Info, Research Alert) - NATO Innovation Challenge to fight COVID-19
(Program Info, Research Alert) - National Institutes of Health (NIH): Partnerships for Countermeasures against Select Pathogens (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
(Program Info) - National Institutes of Health (NIH): Data Driven Research on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (R21)
(Program Info) - National Institutes of Health (NIH):Development of Biomedical Technologies for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
(Program Info) - PSI Foundation: PSI Covid Research Stream
(Program Info) - Pfizer Global Medical Grants – COVID-19 Funding Opportunity
(Program Info, Research Alert) - Roche Canada COVID-19 Open Innovation Challenge
(Program Info, Research Alert) - Ontario Together Portal – Closing April 24
(Program Info, Research Alert, Research Alert 2) - Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF-5)
(Program Info) - Supercluster Funding
(Program Info) - Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research – Innovations to Support Research on the Cardiovascular Complications of COVID-19
(Program Info) - Toronto COVID-19 Action Initiative
(Program Info, Funding Decision) - Vale COVID-19 Challenge
(Program Info, Research Alert)
Resource Hub
- COVID-19 Response Resource for the University of Toronto and Affiliated InstitutionsOnline platform aggregating basic info regarding U of T and affiliated institution research projects and the resources that can be used to support COVID-19 related efforts
- COVID-19 Survey Tracker
This dashboard allows you to identify other groups that have published survey-based results on topics related to COVID-19. This can help to enable the use of repeated measures, to coordinate between research teams, and to identify gaps that have not yet been filled. - UTL Resources for Researching the Coronavirus
A Library guide with search strings for health sciences databases, curated research collections, RSS feeds for database search updates. - SOSCIP COVID-19 Response
Gain rapid access to high-performance computing resources on SOSCIP advanced computing platforms. - CanCOVID
Join a platform to promote collaboration, coordination, and communication between expert community of Canadian COVID-19 researchers, clinical collaborators, and healthcare stakeholders - COVID-19 Resources Canada
Locate human resources, expertise, reagents and equipment in a timely manner. - Clinical Trial Resources
- COVID-19 Clinical Trials: Database of officially registered clinical trials for COVID-19 treatments.
- COVIDTrials: Resource hub of active clinical trials in Canada
- Honeybee Hub – COVID-19 Portal: A free clinical trials portal to connect people to COVID-19 research studies
- HDRN Canada COVID-19 Response
Briefing note of existing Health Data Research Network Canada research projects, and additional resources
Evidence Synthesis, Articles & Pre-Prints
- NIH COVID-19 Portfolio
A comprehensive listing of COVID‑19 publications and preprints that is freely available coupled with a portfolio analysis interface for querying the full text and supplemental data - Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service
An up-to-date collection of evidence syntheses completed by the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine - Johns Hopkins. 2019 Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium (NCRC) – Literature Summaries
Rapid curation and reviews of the emerging scientific evidence about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 - PHO Synopsis of Key Articles – COVID-19
Brief description and summary of key points from new articles which are of importance to public health. - COVID-19 Drug Evidence Initiative (CDEI)
Up-to-date summaries and critical appraisals for all prospective, interventional drug therapy trials for COVID-19 - Discovering Coronavirus-Related and COVID-19-Related Articles
Access publications, basic searches and PMC Text Mining Collections - Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Cochrane resources and news
Access rapid reviews and special collections. - TRIP Database – COVID-19 Updates
A user friendly clinical search engine specializing in quick access to high quality research - bioRxhiv and medRxiv
Collection of COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints (preliminary reports have not been peer-reviewed) - COVID-END
The COVID-19 Evidence Network to support Decision-making offers a guide to COVID-19 evidence sources - Navigating the COVID-19 Evidence Landscape
A UTL learning module describing different types COVID-19 evidence and information.
Data & Visualizations
UTL COVID-19 Data Resources and Tutorials
This guide is a collection of resources and tutorials related to COVID-19, including data sources, visualizations, and maps.
- COVID-19 Data & Statistical Sources. This page, created by the Map & Data Library, aggregates credible datasets and statistic sources available worldwide.
- COVID-19 Data Visualizations. This page, created by the Map & Data Library, aggregates data visualizations available worldwide.
COVID-19 Visual Media Resource
A free collection of illustrations, animations and visualizations to help explain COVID-19