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The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) developed this weekly e-newsletter to share important news, resources and funding opportunities related to COVID-19.
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New COVID-19 funding opportunities from NIH
In addition to more than 30 notices of special interest (NOSI) for competitive revisions and administrative supplements from NIH, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has announced a call for Emergency  Awards: Rapid Investigation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Applications will be accepted for both R21 (PAR-20-177) and R01 (PAR-20-178) grants. Research strategies should describe how the proposed studies will advance understanding of SARS-CoV-2 and/or COVID-19 virology, pathophysiology or the development of medical countermeasures; clinical trials are not allowed. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.
NIH also has released new COVID-19-related NOSIs for data-driven research (R21, due June 16), nervous system effects and active NHLBI clinical trials.
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MICHR recruits COVID-19 study participants
Researchers who are working on studies to understand and combat COVID-19 can gain access to potential study participants who self-identify as having the virus or having been diagnosed and recovered, by posting their studies on UMHealthResearch.org. Interested researchers can visit the UMHR study team information page to learn more.
Registered volunteers have already indicated “Coronavirus infection 2019 (COVID-19)” as a past or present medical condition. The MICHR Participant Recruitment Team also plans to launch a robust social media campaign targeting individuals who currently have, or have recovered from, the diagnosis. These ads will run in areas heavily impacted by COVID-19 and drive interested participants to UMHR to raise awareness about studies they may qualify to participate in.
Learn more about how volunteers can help with the COVID-19 pandemic: https://covid19.umhealthresearch.org/
Explore additional MICHR resources and services for COVID-19 research.
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COVID-19 publications by U-M researchers
Researchers across a variety of disciplines at U-M are using their expertise to address the global COVID-19 pandemic. OVPR has catalogued a list of publications by U-M researchers, which will be routinely updated. The list illustrates the breadth of COVID-related work led by U-M investigators. If you have questions, or want to see changes or additions, please contact Jesse Johnston (jajohnst@umich.edu).
The weekly COVID-19 Research Solutions will feature the most recent U-M publications (see below).
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COVID-19 Research Access Pass from ReadCube
ReadCube, along with leading publishers Wiley, JAMA and Springer Nature, is providing free full-text access to more than 26 million papers for anyone studying COVID-19. Researchers can apply for access at covid19.readcube.com.
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Mobile location datasets for COVID-19 studies
UberMedia is providing free and low-cost de-identified mobile location datasets available for immediate use for COVID-19-related studies. The datasets may help answer critical epidemiological, resource planning and economic questions, e.g., quantifying social distancing to correlate with COVID-19 cases, understanding homelessness and displaced population movement, or identifying disease outbreaks in advance of healthcare demand. Interested researchers may contact Heather Smith (heather@ubermedia.com).
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Internal funding to support COVID-19 research
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COVID-19 Research Resources
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COVID-19 Research Index
U-M researchers across a variety of disciplines are using their expertise to address the global COVID-19 pandemic. In an effort to increase awareness and foster collaboration among U-M researchers studying the novel coronavirus, OVPR created a COVID-19 Research Index that lists more than 150 projects in all stages of development — from planning to fully launched.
Access the research index
Index your COVID-19 research
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RD support to help mobilize research teams
UMOR's Research Development team offers funding consultations and proposal development services for pulling together external applications, as well as virtual facilitation services for ideation sessions or project planning. The team can help you brainstorm with old and new collaborators, hone research questions, generate specific aims and develop plans for propelling the project forward.
Contact Jill Jividen, Director of Research Development, for more information (jjgoff@umich.edu, or 803-429-6320).
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Newest External Funding Opportunities
| MTEC: Wearable Diagnostic for Detection of COVID-19 |
White Paper |
May 13, 2020 |
| Department of State: U.S. Mission to India: COVID-19 Small Grants Program |
Full Application Deadline |
Reviewed monthly, starting May 31, 2020
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| AHRQ: Competitive Revision Supplements to Existing AHRQ Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Grants and Cooperative Agreements to Evaluate Health System and Healthcare Professional Responsiveness to COVID-19 (PA-20-072) |
Full Application Deadline |
May 29, 2020 |
| AHRQ: Competitive Revision Supplements to Existing AHRQ Health Service Research (HSR) Grants and Cooperative Agreements to Evaluate Health System and Healthcare Professional Responsiveness to COVID-19 (PA-20-070) |
Full Application Deadline |
May 29, 2020 |
| Booz Allen: Innovation Fund |
Full Application Deadline |
June 5, 2020 |
Innocentive: What Should We Know to Better Treat Coronavirus? |
Full Application Deadline |
May 24, 2020 |
Internet Society Foundation: Emergency Response Grant Programme: COVID-19 |
Full Application Deadline |
May 17, 2020 |
DHHS Office of Minority Health: National Infrastructure for Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 within Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities |
Full Application Deadline |
May 11, 2020 |
| USISTEF: COVID-19 Ignition Grants |
Full Application Deadline |
May 15, 2020 |
| IUSSTF: COVID-19 Indo-U.S. Virtual Networks |
Full Application Deadline |
May 15, 2020 |
| AHRQ:
FORECASTED: Announcement to Support Novel, High-Impact Studies Evaluating Health System and Healthcare Professional Responsiveness to COVID-19 (PA-20-071) |
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A comprehensive list of U-M publications related to COVID-19 research is available here. The following have been published since April 23, 2020:
Glied, S., & Levy, H. (2020). The Potential Effects of Coronavirus on National Health Expenditures. JAMA.
Hester, T.B., Cartwright, J.D., DiGiovine, D.G., Karlic, K.J., Kercheval, J.B., DiGiovine, B., Gay, S.E., Hass, C., Hawkins, D., Weirauch, A., Iwashyna, T.J. (2020). Training and Deployment of Medical Students as Respiratory Therapist Extenders During COVID-19. ATS Scholar, ats-scholar.2020-0049PS.
Kujawski, S.A., Lu, X., Schneider, E., Blythe, D., Boktor, S., Farrehi, J., Ernst, R., … Biggs, H.M. (2020). Outbreaks of adenovirus-associated respiratory illness on five college campuses in the United States. Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciaa465.
Perera, R.A., Mok, C.K., Tsang, O.T., Lv, H., Ko, R.L., Wu, N.C.,..., Monto, A.S., … Peiris, M. (2020). Serological assays for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), March 2020. Eurosurveillance, 25(16).
Zuo, Y., Yalavarthi, S., Shi, H., Gockman, K., Zuo, M., Madison, J. A., Blair, C.N., …,Woods, R.J., Kanthi, Y., Knight, J.S. (2020). Neutrophil extracellular traps in COVID-19. JCI Insight.
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