Funding Opportunities For Canadian Innovators Who Can Help Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic

Challenge Stream COVID-19
- This stream seeks to develop novel solutions to combat COVID-19
- Funding amounts to support COVID-19 challenges:
- receive up to $300K to develop a proof of feasibility in Phase 1
- receive up to $2M to build a prototype in Phase 2
- Once successfully developed, innovators participating in COVID-19 challenges may be eligible to sell their solution to government directly.
- Proposals from companies to develop technologies and services must fall within TRLs 1-6. Please consult the TRLs definitions.
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COVID-19 challenge – Low-cost sensor system for COVID-19 patient monitoring

NRC is seeking a low cost system (unit cost <$25) that can continuously measure temperature, peripheral capillary oxygen saturation (SpO2), blood pressure (BP), pulse and respiration rates, and transmit this information wirelessly to a base station for COVID-19 patient monitoring in locales including ERs, general wards, communities and homes. Challenge sponsor: National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Funding Mechanism: Grant Opening date: April 5, 2020 Closing date: April 20, 2020, 14:00 Eastern Daylight Time [fusion_button link="https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/101.nsf/eng/00078.html" text_transform="" title="" target="_self" link_attributes="" alignment="" modal="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" color="default" button_gradient_top_color="" button_gradient_bottom_color="" button_gradient_top_color_hover="" button_gradient_bottom_color_hover="" accent_color="" accent_hover_color="" type="" bevel_color="" border_width="" border_radius="" border_color="" border_hover_color="" size="" stretch="default" icon="" icon_position="left" icon_divider="no" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""]Full Details[/fusion_button] [fusion_separator style_type="default" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" sep_color="" top_margin="" bottom_margin="" border_size="" icon="" icon_size="" icon_circle="" icon_circle_color="" width="" alignment="center"][/fusion_separator]

COVID-19 Challenge - Point of Care and Home Diagnostic Kit for COVID-19 The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and National Research Council (NRC) are seeking a solution that will diagnose individuals affected by COVID-19 within 3 days of the start of their symptoms using a sample, other than a nasopharyngeal swab, with a rapid single-use home testing kit analogous to a home pregnancy test. Challenge Sponsor: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Funding Mechanism: Grant Opening date: April 5, 2020 Closing date: April 20, 2020, 14:00 Eastern Daylight Time [fusion_button link="https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/101.nsf/eng/00100.html" text_transform="" title="" target="_self" link_attributes="" alignment="" modal="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" color="default" button_gradient_top_color="" button_gradient_bottom_color="" button_gradient_top_color_hover="" button_gradient_bottom_color_hover="" accent_color="" accent_hover_color="" type="" bevel_color="" border_width="" border_radius="" border_color="" border_hover_color="" size="" stretch="default" icon="" icon_position="left" icon_divider="no" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""]Full Details[/fusion_button] Sign-up for the Innovative Solutions Canada Newsfeed to get a notification when new funding opportunities launch.[/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
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