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| **Fast Grants** is an American charity created to provide rapid grants for research related to [[COVID-19]]. | **Fast Grants** is an American charity created to provide rapid grants for research related to [[COVID-19]]. |
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| It was modelled after [[Emergent Ventures]], a fellowship and grant program from the [[Mercatus Center]] at [[George Mason University]].((Hobson, W. (2020, April 29). //Scientists wait months for coronavirus research grants. This economist is trying to fix that.// Washington Post. http://archive.today/2020.04.30-192113/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/scientists-wait-months-for-coronavirus-research-grants-this-economist-is-trying-to-fix-that/2020/04/29/b5c8a3e0-896e-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html)) | It was administered through [[Emergent Ventures]], a fellowship and grant program from the [[Mercatus Center]] at [[George Mason University]].((Hobson, W. (2020, April 29). //Scientists wait months for coronavirus research grants. This economist is trying to fix that.// Washington Post. http://archive.today/2020.04.30-192113/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/scientists-wait-months-for-coronavirus-research-grants-this-economist-is-trying-to-fix-that/2020/04/29/b5c8a3e0-896e-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html)) ((//Home.// Fast Grants. Retrieved December 23, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.12.23-005332/https://fastgrants.org/)) |
| ===== History ===== | ===== History ===== |
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| ==== Donors ==== | ==== Donors ==== |
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| Donors to Fast Grants include:((Hobson, W. (2020, April 29). //Scientists wait months for coronavirus research grants. This economist is trying to fix that.// Washington Post. http://archive.today/2020.04.30-192113/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/scientists-wait-months-for-coronavirus-research-grants-this-economist-is-trying-to-fix-that/2020/04/29/b5c8a3e0-896e-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html)) | Donors to Fast Grants include:((Hobson, W. (2020, April 29). //Scientists wait months for coronavirus research grants. This economist is trying to fix that.// Washington Post. http://archive.today/2020.04.30-192113/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/scientists-wait-months-for-coronavirus-research-grants-this-economist-is-trying-to-fix-that/2020/04/29/b5c8a3e0-896e-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html)) ((//Home.// Fast Grants. Retrieved December 23, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.12.23-005332/https://fastgrants.org/)) |
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| | * [[Arnold Ventures]] |
| | * [[Audacious Project]] |
| | * [[Chan Zuckerberg Initiative]] |
| * [[John Collison]] | * [[John Collison]] |
| * [[Patrick Collison]] | * [[Patrick Collison]] |
| * [[Reed Hoffman]] | * [[Crankstart]] |
| | * [[Jack Dorsey]] |
| | * [[Kim Farquhar]] |
| | * [[Scott Farquhar]] |
| | * [[Paul Graham]] |
| | * [[Reid Hoffman]] |
| | * [[Tobias Lütke]] |
| | * [[Fiona McKean]] |
| | * [[Julia Milner]] |
| | * [[Yuri Milner]] |
| * [[Elon Musk]] | * [[Elon Musk]] |
| | * [[Chris Sacca]] |
| | * [[Crystal Sacca]] |
| | * [[Schmidt Futures]] |
| | </WRAP> |
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| | ===== Activities ===== |
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| | ==== Recipients ==== |
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| | Recipients of grant funding from Fast Grants include:((//Home.// Fast Grants. Retrieved December 23, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.12.23-005332/https://fastgrants.org/)) |
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| | ^ Name ^ Affiliation ^ Project ^ |
| | | - | [[Addgene]] | For continuing to share critical reagents with researchers at minimal cost during the [[Covid-19 pandemic]]. | |
| | | [[Patricia Aguilar]] | [[University of Texas]] | For modeling age-dependent susceptibility to [[SARS-CoV-2]] infection in 3D human lung organoids. | |
| | | [[Hector Aguilar-Carreno]] | [[Cornell University]] | To use a novel viral membrane inhibitor to produce a [[covid-19_vaccines|SARS-CoV-2 vaccine]] | |
| | | [[Wataru Akahata]] | [[Kyoto University]] | For the development of a Covid-19 vaccine specificially targeted to the receptor-binding domain of the viral S protein using expertise gained during successful development of anti-[[malaria]] and anti-[[chikungunya]] vaccines. | |
| | | [[James Antaki]] | [[Cornell University]] | For the collaborative effort with [[medical_technology_companies:Accel Diagnostics]] to develop a point of care serological test for rapid quantification of antibody titer to monitor disease progression and strength of immune response. | |
| | | [[Susan Athey]] | [[Stanford University]] | For retrospective analyses designed to assess the benefit of off-label drug use, in order to help prioritize and guide subsequent randomized clinical trials. | |
| | | [[Michael Barry]] | [[Mayo Clinic]] | For the development of a single-cycle adenovirus vaccine and viral decoy against SARS-CoV-2. | |
| | | [[Mark Bathe]] | [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) | For a collaborative effort with the Lingwood and Schmidt labs combining vaccine immunology and nanotechnology expertise to rapidly test and characterize COVID-19 vaccine candidates in high-throughput. | |
| | | [[John Bell]] | [[Ottawa Hospital Research Institute]] (OHRI) | To create multiple vaccines for COVID-19 using novel strategies for delivering coronavirus proteins directly to the critical cells required to generate an effective immune response. | |
| | | [[Carolyn Bertozzi]] | [[Stanford University]] | For a collaboration of Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi, Dr. Catherine Blish and Dr. [[Marie Hollenhorst]] to identify minimally invasive predictive biomarkers for Covid-19 disease progression to improve scarce resource allocation. | |
| | | [[Lbachir BenMohamed]] | [[University of California Irvine]] | For the development of an asymptomatic multi-epitope COVID-19 vaccine. | |
| | | [[Catherine Blish]] | [[Stanford University]] | To determine best practices for N95 mask decontamination that will sufficiently inactivate virus and allow mask reuse in a clinical setting | |
| | | [[Jeff Biernaskie]] | [[University of Calgary]] | To study the immune basis of COVID-19 related [[acute respiratory distress syndrome]] (ARDs) via longitudinal study of patients undergoing placebo and convalescent plasma treatment in order to inform evidence-based repurposing of targeted immunotherapies to improve outcomes for critically-ill patients affected by COVID-19. | |
| | | [[Pamela Bjorkman]] | [[California Institute of Technology]] | For electron tomography imaging of SARS-CoV-2 virions trapped in the act of fusion by novel fusion inhibitors | |
| | | [[Jim Boonyaratanakornkit]] | [[Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center]] | To probe the human B cell repertoire for SARS-CoV-2-protective B cells from pre-immune individuals in order to guide vaccine and monoclonal antibody design against COVID-19. | |
| | | [[Gillian Booth]] | [[University of Toronto]] | To accelerate the CONNECT study (COVID-19 and diabetes: Clinical Outcomes and Navigated NEtwork Care Today) to define the relationship between diabetes and adverse COVID-19 outcomes and improve care for individuals with diabetes. | |
| | | [[Stephen Brohawn]] | [[University of California Berkeley]] | To develop novel COVID-19 therapeutics that target coronavirus ion channels in collaboration with the Bautista and Adesnik labs. | |
| | | [[James Brian Byrd]] | [[University of Michigan Medical School]] | To support a randomized, controlled clinical trial testing whether continuation, or discontinuation of two common types of blood pressure medication leads to better outcomes in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. | |
| | | [[Ann Chahroudi]] | [[Emory University School of Medicine]] | To investigate cross-reactive, cross-neutralizing, and antibody-dependent enhancing (ADE) antibodies of circulating endemic coronaviruses. | |
| | | [[Amy Chung]] | [[University of Melbourne]] | |
| | | [[Susan Daniel]] | [[Cornell University]] | |
| | | [[Brandon DeKosky]] | [[University of Kansas]] | |
| | | [[Shokrollah Elahi]] | [[University of Alberta]] | |
| | | [[John Eikelboom]] | [[McMaster University]] | |
| | | [[Barbara Engelhardt]] | [[Princeton University]] | |
| | | [[Joaquin Espinosa]] | [[University of Colorado]] | |
| | | [[Laura Esserman]] | [[University of San Francisco]] | |
| | | [[Tracy Fisher]] | [[Tulane University]] | |
| | | [[Steven Marc Friedman]] | [[University Health Network]] (UHN), [[University of Toronto]] | |
| | | [[Judith Frydman]] | [[Stanford University]] | |
| | | [[Patrick Giguère]] | [[University of Ottawa]] | |
| | | [[Amy Gladfelter]] | [[University of North Carolina]] | |
| | | [[Douglas Goetz]] | [[Ohio University]] | |
| | | [[Anne Goldfeld]] | [[Boston Children's Hospital]] | |
| | | [[Ewan Goligher]] | [[University Health Network]] (UHN), [[University of Manitoba]] | |
| | | [[Brigitte Gomperts]] | [[University of California Los Angeles]] | |
| | | [[Lisa Gralinski]] | [[University of North Carolina]] | |
| | | [[Nathan Grubaugh]] | [[Yale School of Public Health]] | |
| | | [[Jeremy Hirota]] | [[McMaster University]] | |
| | | [[Shirley Hsin-Ju Mei]] | [[Ottawa Hospital Research Institute]] | |
| | | [[Eva Harris]] | [[University of California Berkeley]] | |
| | | [[John Higgins]] | [[Massachusetts General Hospital]] | |
| | | [[Krystalyn Hudson]] | [[Columbia University]] | |
| | | [[Patrick Hsu]] | [[University of California Berkeley]] | |
| | | [[Akiko Iwasaki]] | [[Yale University]] | |
| | | [[Smita Iyer]] | [[University of California Davis]] | |
| | | [[Benjamin Izar]] | [[Columbia University]] | |
| | | [[Peter Jackson]] | [[Stanford University School of Medicine]] | |
| | | [[Jingyue Ju]] | [[Columbia University]] | |
| | | [[Naftali Kaminski]] | [[Yale University]] | |
| | | [[Kevin Kain]] | [[University Health Network]] (UHN) | |
| | | [[Yoshihiro Kawaoka]] | [[University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine]] | |
| | | [[Michael Kay]] | [[University of Utah]] | |
| | | [[Nevan Krogan]] | [[University of California San Francisco]] | |
| | | [[Ronald Levy]] | [[Stanford University]] | |
| | | [[Michael Lin]] | [[Stanford University]] | |
| | | [[Mark Looney]] | [[University of California San Francisco]] | |
| | | [[Hiten Madhani]] | [[University of California San Francisco]] | |
| | | [[Jonathan Maguire]] | [[University of Toronto]] | |
| | | [[Rajeev Malhotra]] | [[Massachusetts General Hospital]] | |
| | | [[Amanda Martinot]] | [[Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine]] | |
| | | [[Grant McFadden]] | [[Arizona State University]] | |
| | | [[Allison McGeer]] | [[Sinai Health System]] | |
| | | [[Roman Melnyk]] | [[University of Toronto]], [[SickKids]] | |
| | | [[Miriam Merad]] | [[Mount Sinai Medical Center]] | |
| | | [[Edward Mills]] | [[McMaster University]] | |
| | | [[Keith Mastov]] | [[University of California San Francisco]] | |
| | | [[Elke Muhlberger]] | [[Boston University]] | |
| | | [[Anders Näär]] | [[University of California Berkeley]] | |
| | | [[Mihai Netea]] | [[Radboud University Medical Center]] | |
| | | [[Daniel Nomura]] | [[University of California Berkeley]] | |
| | | [[Paul Norman]] | [[University of Colorado]] | |
| | | - | [[Center for Open Science]] | |
| | | [[Elizabeth Ogburn]] | [[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health]] | |
| | | [[Melanie Ott]] | [[University of California San Francisco]] | |
| | | [[Chul Park]] | [[University of Toronto]] | |
| | | [[Jerry Pelletier]] | [[McGill University]] | |
| | | [[Bradley Pentelute]] | [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) | |
| | | [[Marion Pepper]] | [[University of Washington]] | |
| | | [[Nikolai Petrovsky]] | [[Flinders University]] | |
| | | [[Rosalind Picard]] | [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) | |
| | | [[Dylan Pillai]] | [[University of Calgary]] | |
| | | [[Hidde Ploegh]] | [[Harvard University]] | |
| | | [[Angela Rasmussen]] | [[Columbia University]] | |
| | | [[Brian Raught]] | [[University Health Network]] | |
| | | [[Jeffrey Rawetch]] | [[Rockefeller University]] | |
| | | [[Charles Rice]] | [[Rockefeller University]] | |
| | | [[Davide Robbiani]] | [[Rockefeller University]] | |
| | | [[Erica Ollmann Saphire]] | [[La Jolla Institute for Immunology]] | |
| | | [[Ansuman Satpathy]] | [[Stanford University]] | |
| | | [[Jacqueline Saw]] | [[Vancouver General Hospital]] (VGH) | |
| | | [[Julia Schaletzky]] | [[University of California Berkeley]] | |
| | | [[Katherine Seley-Radtke]] | [[University of Maryland]] | |
| | | [[Timothy Sheahan]] | [[University of North Carolina]] | |
| | | [[Sachdev Sidhu]] | [[University of Toronto]] | |
| | | [[Matthew Spitzer]] | [[University of California San Francisco]] | |
| | | [[Sarah Stanley]] | [[University of California Berkeley]] | |
| | | [[Erec Stebbins]] | [[German Cancer Research Center]] | |
| | | [[Alice Ting]] | [[Stanford University]] | |
| | | [[Alain Townsend]] | [[University of Oxford]] | |
| | | [[David Veesler]] | [[University of Washington]] | |
| | | [[Kliment Verba]] | [[University of California San Francisco]] | |
| | | [[Bert Vogelstein]] | [[Johns Hopkins University]] | |
| | | [[Arthur Wallace]] | [[University of California San Francisco]], [[San Francisco VA Medical Center]] | |
| | | [[Bruce Wang]] | [[University of California San Francisco]] | |
| | | [[Taia Wang]] | [[Stanford University]] | |
| | | [[Tania Watts]] | [[University of Toronto]] | |
| | | [[Kipp Weiskopf]] | [[Whitehead Institute]] | |
| | | [[Craig Wilen]] | [[Yale University]] | |
| | | [[Paul Yager]] | [[University of Washington]] | |
| | | [[Michael Yin]] | [[Columbia University]] | |
| | | [[Qian Zhang]] | [[Rockefeller University]] | |
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| ===== External links ===== | ===== External links ===== |
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| * [[https://fastgrants.org/|Website]] | * [[https://fastgrants.org/|Website]] |
| | * [[https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/fast-grants/|White Rose Wiki]] |
| * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Grants|Wikipedia]] | * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Grants|Wikipedia]] |
