Amazon Web Services (AWS) has issued a call for diagnostic research projects under the Diagnostic Development Initiative (DDI).  A summary is provided below. 

Objective

  • To provide support for innovation in rapid and accurate patient testing for 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), and other diagnostic solutions to mitigate future outbreaks.
  • To offer technical support and provide AWS promotional credits to support the use of AWS services to advance diagnostic research

Required Overhead

N/A

Value

Promotional credits and technical support

Duration

Promotional credits provided to researchers are awarded under (and will expire in accordance with) the AWS Promotional Credit Terms & Conditions page.  See the following link for more information: https://aws.amazon.com/awscredits/

Deadlines

Submission to ORS – Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Submission to agency – Tuesday, June 30, 2020

For complete details on this opportunity and how to apply, please visit the following website:

https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/nonprofits/disaster-response/diagnostic-dev-initiative/

 

ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined here:

https://research.info.yorku.ca/2020/03/important-news-submission-of-research-applications-and-ors-checklists/