List of researchers who received explosive funding for research on new coronavirus

'The normal science funding mechanism is too slow,' so it was decided to fund $ 10,000 to $ 500,000 (110 to 54 million yen) for the COVID-19 related projects within 48 hours of application. ' Fast Grants ' has started.

Fast Grants

https://fastgrants.org/

The three requirements to apply for Fast Grants are:

・ Academic research group sponsor
・ We are already working on a project to help the COVID-19 pandemic within the next 6 months
・ Funding is required to complete the project

One of the requirements is 'within the next 6 months' because the existing funding period focuses on supporting long-term research. On the other hand, since the battle against COVID-19 is a time game, Fast Grants, on the other hand, will support short-term projects.

Fast Grants is part of the project Emergent Ventures operated by George Mason University Mercatorus Center in the United States, and the decision of the grant will be made in a form recommended by the panel of biomedical scientists to Emergent Ventures. When making a recommendation, the Q & A states that the subsidy amount is small and projects with immediate results are prioritized.

Grants are sent to the applicant or university and are required to be used only to 'promote COVID-19 related research', but the recipient of the grant has the right to make the decision. And the recipient of the grant must meet the following conditions:

• Use Fast Grants grants to undertake COVID-19 related research.
-Send monthly research progress summaries for 6 months. This summary can be about one paragraph and can be sent by email.
-The report must be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal and at the same time published on the preprint repository bioRxiv or arXiv . However, there are no other restrictions on intellectual property rights.
・(PDF file) According to the policy of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , pay 10% of the grant to the university as various expenses

Fast Grants are open at 12:00 pm, Tuesday, April 7, 2020 Pacific time, the first grant will be decided on 12th (Sunday), and subsequent decisions will be made within 48 hours from application It is supposed to.

The list of researchers whose grants have been decided as of April 19, 2020 is as follows (honorific title omitted). 67 people have received the grant and some researchers are not on the list.

・ Wataru Akabata (Kyoto University)
・ Jeff Bianasky (University of Calgary)
・ Brian Bird (University of Michigan School of Medicine)
・ John Eikel Boom (McMaster University)
・ Judith Friedman (Stanford University)
・ Douglas Getz (Ohio University)
・ Shirley Shinju May (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute)
・ Patrick Sue (University of California, Berkeley)
・ Peter K. Jackson (Stanford University School of Medicine)
・ Ronald Levy (Stanford University)
Rajiv Malhotra (Massachusetts General Hospital)
・ Roman Melnik (Toronto University Children's Hospital)
・ Mihai Netea (Radbaud University Medical Center)
・ Angela Rasmussen (Columbia University)
・ Erika Olman Sapphire (La Jolla Immunology Institute)
・ Jacqueline Saw (Vancouver General Hospital)
・ Sachidev Shidu (University of Toronto)
・ Alice Tin (Stanford University)
・ Kean Chan (Rockefeller University)
Mark Bass (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
・ Jim Boon Yarata Nakorn Kit (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
・ Brandon J. Decoski (University of Kansas)
Stephen Mark Friedman (University Health Network, University of Toronto)
・ Patrick Cigele (University of Ottawa)
・ Euan Goliger (University Health Network, University of Manitoba)
・ Eva Harris (University of California, Berkeley)
・ Akiko Iwasaki (Yale University)
・ Naphtali Kaminsky (Yale University)
・ Mark R. Rooney (University of California, San Francisco)
・ Amanda J. Multiknot (Faculty of Cummings Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University)
・ Anders Na (University of California, Berkeley)
・ Elizabeth L. Ogburn (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health)
・ David F. Robiani (Rockefeller University)
・ Ansman Sattersea (Stanford University)
・ Julia Shaletsky (University of California, Berkeley)
・ Matthew Spitzer (University of California, San Francisco)
・ Tania Watts (University of Toronto)