| 1 | From: UCSF Funding Opportunities <FUNDING_OPPS@LISTSRV.UCSF.EDU> On Behalf Of Kiser, Gretchen |
| 2 | Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 6:27 PM |
| 3 | To: FUNDING_OPPS@LISTSRV.UCSF.EDU |
| 4 | Subject: Another COVID-19-related Funding Opportunity: Fast Grants for COVID-19 |
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| 6 | Colleagues, |
| 7 | Here is another COVID-19-related Funding Opportunity: |
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| 9 | Fast Grants for COVID-19 |
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| 11 | Fast Funding for COVID-19 Science |
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| 13 | Science funding mechanisms are too slow in normal times and may be much too slow during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fast Grants are an effort to correct this. |
| 14 | If you are a scientist at an academic institution currently working on a COVID-19 related project and in need of funding, we invite you to apply for a Fast Grant. Fast Grants are $10k to $500k and decisions are made in under 48 hours. If we approve the grant, you'll receive payment as quickly as your university can receive it. |
| 15 | If you wish to apply to grants for scientific or biomedical COVID-19 projects, please apply through [https://FastGrants.org FastGrants.org]. |
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| 17 | For non-scientific/biomedical COVID-19 projects, please apply through the Emergent Ventures application. |
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| 20 | The grants are currently supported by: John Collison, Patrick Collison, Paul Graham, Reid Hoffman, Fiona McKean and Tobias Lütke, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Chris and Crystal Sacca. These funders have committed over $10M to funding Fast Grant awardees. |
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| 23 | If you are an interested funder, please reach out: fund@fastgrants.org. |
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| 25 | Emergent Ventures |
| 26 | Emergent Ventures, a fellowship and grant program from the Mercatus Center, seeks to support entrepreneurs and brilliant minds with highly scalable, “zero to one” ideas for meaningfully improving society. |
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| 32 | Gretchen L Kiser, PhD |
| 33 | Executive Director, Research Development Office |
| 34 | UCSF |
| 35 | office: (415) 502-1665 |
| 36 | mobile: (480) 290-0207 |
| 37 | }}} |