How COVID-19 has changed medical research funding
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Here, we consider how the lessons we learned in 2020 from funding COVID-19 research could have a long-term impact on the way that we fund medical research. We look back at how UK government funding for COVID-19 medical research evolved, beginning with the early calls for proposals in February that pump-primed funding for vaccines and therapeutics, and culminating in the launch of the government's National Core Studies programme in October. We discuss how the research community mobilized to submit and review grants more rapidly than ever before, against a background of laboratory and office closures. We also highlight the challenges of running clinical trials as the number of hospitalized patients fluctuated with different waves of the disease.
Source: Interface Focus
Authors: Patrick F. Chinnery, Jonathan J. Pearce, Anna M. Kinsey, Joanna M. Jenkinson, Glenn Wells, Fiona M. Watt
Institution: Medical Research Council
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Medical Research Council
OpenAlex ID: W3207465043