Overview
Major research-plan funding for multidisciplinary basic research on coronavirus evolution, host immunity, immune injury and protection, intervention targets, vaccines and therapeutics.
Complete grant details
The 2026 plan supports cultivation, key-support and integrated projects aligned with its core scientific questions. Research directions include coronavirus variation and infection, immune-response initiation and regulation, non-SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus interactions, and large-scale multi-omics or clinical-data approaches to host–virus immune mechanisms.
Eligibility requirements
Applicants must have experience undertaking basic-research projects and hold a senior professional title. Postdoctoral researchers in stations, current graduate students, people without an institutional affiliation, or researchers whose institution is not an eligible host institution may not apply as PI. Additional NSFC application-limit, ethics and biosafety rules apply.
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Verification notes
The official guide states submissions are accepted 30 September–8 October 2026 and close at 16:00, but it does not explicitly label the timezone on the public page; only the authoritative deadline date is normalized.
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