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W ith the world,
the nation, and our community facing COVID-19, we are hoping to assist investigators and experts in their translational science research, specifically related to the pandemic. Our goal is to help investigators explore and solve major challenges in translational science, especially those that address the special health problems of our urban communities in the development of tools, methods and processes to expedite research and discovery specifically related to COVID-19 challenges.


 CTSI Support for COVID-19
Related Research - April 2020
COVID-19 Pre-Arc
SARS-CoV-2 has caused a global pandemic and lead to an unprecedented public health crisis within a few months. There is an urgent need to gain better insights into the underlying pathogenesis of localized SARS-CoV-2 infection in the lung and its distant organ disease complications

Now more than ever, we need a pool
of qualified Research Professionals to address the COVID-19 Crisis.The CTSI Research Job Connection (RJC) includes a pool of research professionals across BU and BMC who are interested in working extra hours or in a new position due to recent changes made
to clinical trial research. If you are interested in being matched with Investigators or Study Teams looking
for qualified Research Professionals, please register below.


We encourage Medical Student Volunteers to register
Funding Opportunities

Supporting Tribal Public Health Capacity
in Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Department of Health and Human Services


Centers for Disease Control ( OSTLTS )

Funding mechanism
for non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to explore how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19.

National Science Foundation ( NSF )

NIST Manufacturing USA National Emergency Assistance Program Department
of Commerce


National Institute
of Standards and Technology ( NIST )


Competitive and Administrative Supplements for the Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Minority Health and Health Disparities


Addressing Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality and Morbidity (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities ( NIMHD )


Availability of Urgent Competitive Revision Supplements on (COVID-19) Related to HIV Comorbidities, Coinfections, and Complications within NIDDK's Mission

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases ( NIDDK )



Availability of Administrative Supplements and Revision Supplements on (COVID-19)

National Institute of Mental Health ( NIMH )

News
Highlights
Call to Action to the Tech
Community on New Machine
Readable COVID-19 Dataset
Now, The White House joins these institutions in issuing a call to action to
the Nation's artificial intelligence experts to develop new text and data mining techniques that can help the science community answer high-priority scientific questions related to COVID-19.


National COVID Cohort
Collaborative (N3C)
To address these and many other questions, the National Center for Data to Health (CD2H) and NCATS are leading the creation of a centralized, secure portal for hosting row-level COVID-19 clinical data—called the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C).

Boston University Clinical & Translational Science Institute
Accelerating Discoveries Towards Better Health 
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