With the novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 getting worse every day and wreaking havoc globally, organizations, foundations, companies, and schools have been coming together to try and build a better understanding of this virus and to speed up research and development of vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutics, and research.
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Fundings for research have been put out by different groups
To further speed track the research for Coronavirus, different groups from all over the world have been trying to fund and help various types of projects regarding the virus.
Groups such as Gilead Sciences Inc., Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc., Johnson & Johnson, Moderna Inc., Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Sanofi, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd., Vir Biotechnology Inc., Penn State, The Government of Canada, Wellcome Trust, Gates Foundation and possibly more, have been giving it their all and contributing to the global response to the Coronavirus or COVID-19, along with the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Canadian Government have their own plans as well
The Government of Canada has plans of providing further preliminary information and rapid research to contain the Coronavirus.
They will be funding applications for projects with the proposed topics that include, medical countermeasures research, social and policy countermeasures, development and evaluation for tools, clinical trials, cultural dimensions, public health response, and so many others.
This research will be launching along with the help of the international partners, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Theses groups have various objectives but only one main goal in mind
According to Penn State, who has recently issued a request for proposals for projects regarding the Coronavirus, "We encourage proposals that seek to establish interdisciplinary teams, and we are very happy to help matchmake where groups are looking for others with the expertise they do not have, with this call, we want to encourage Penn State researchers to use their intellectual and technical firepower to help mitigate both the initial impacts of the outbreak and the longer-term management. SARS-CoV-2 is likely here to stay."
Penn State has aimed to aid researchers with the university's unique research technologies to help contribute to addressing the global novel COVID-19 or Coronavirus.
Other projects that are funded by the university includes the decision support around prevention of the virus and some control measures, the development of engineering tools, biosensors, and environmental sensors, improved diagnostics, the study of animal reservoirs and human behavior, economic analysis, business analysis and development of epidemiological studies.
In the situation that our planet is in, seeing organizations, groups, nations, and basically the human race together to fight this devastating virus is a completely good thing and just what we all need.
You can send in applications to Penn State here.
