Who funds pandemic preparedness research?

We count 340 funded pandemic preparedness projects, active between 2020 and 2035, from 8 funders. The most came from EU · ERC (55 projects), Gates Foundation (53 projects) and EU · Health (51 projects). The median award is $2.6M, across the 333 of 340 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

340

Funders

8

Median award

$2.6M

Open calls now

1

Top funders of pandemic preparedness research

Projects whose title or summary mentions pandemic preparedness. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open pandemic preparedness funding calls

1 open call mentions pandemic preparedness today.

• European Partnership for Pandemic Preparedness (Phase 2)
  European Commission · Horizon EuropeUp to €63,000,000Deadline: April 13, 2027 ·

Funded pandemic preparedness projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• Innate Immune Regulation in Viral Infection and Cancer Chemotherapy
  Wellcome · £3,294,461 · ends 2033
• Viral genomic surveillance in the era of million-sequence trees
  Wellcome · £2,084,119 · ends 2032
• Understanding and Controlling Amyloid Polymorphism: From Test Tube to Tissue
  Wellcome · £2,863,103 · ends 2032
• CAREER: Using recombination in a hybrid zone to interrogate pathogen evolutionary genetics
  NSF · BIO · $1,099,500 · ends 2031
• Dartmouth Clinical and Translational Science Institute
  NIH · NCATS · $4,073,191 · ends 2031
• CTSA UM1 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
  NIH · NCATS · $9,869,052 · ends 2031
• NJ ACTS: A Platform for Translational Science in New Jersey
  NIH · NCATS · $5,567,259 · ends 2031
• Microbiology of Treatment Shortening in Tuberculosis"
  NIH · NIAID · $3,589,323 · ends 2031
• After five years of the reeu (research and extension experience for undergraduates)summer program at the university of maryland eastern…
  USDA · $750,000 · ends 2031
• Immune imprinting and immune responses to influenza viruses with pandemic potential
  NIH · NIAID · $3,160,180 · ends 2030

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “pandemic”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.