Fast Grants

Fast Grants is an American charity created to provide rapid grants for research related to COVID-19.

It was administered through Emergent Ventures, a fellowship and grant program from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.^{1) 2)}

Fast Grants was founded in early April 2020 by George Mason University professor Tyler Cohen, Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison, and University of California Berkeley bioengineer Patrick Hsu.³⁾ The program received 4,000 applications in its first week,⁴⁾ and in less than a month, had “awarded $18 million to more than 100 researchers working on projects including several potential vaccines and treatments for COVID-19.”

Donors to Fast Grants include:^{5) 6)}

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