Innovative Medicines Initiative: Call for research proposals to better tackle the COVID-19 outbreak

Tuesday, March 24, 2020 @ 12:00 am

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) announced a call for research proposals (deadline: 31 March 2020) that aims to support projects that develop treatments and diagnostics to better tackle the COVID19 outbreak and to increase preparedness for possible future outbreaks.

Please be aware that this is a single stage submission (70pages), meaning the pharma partners have to be contacted already now for the consortium. All additional special requirements are in the published FAQ.

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