Grand Challenges: Innovations in Decentralized Pan-Orthoebolavirus Diagnostics

This Grand Challenge seeks specific, field-ready innovations in pan-Orthoebolavirus diagnostics that address the concrete gaps exposed by the 2026 outbreak and prepare the global community for the next one. 

The Challenge aims to:

• Generate scientific foundations

• Accelerate development of field-deployable diagnostic products

• Build population-level early-warning capacity

• Strengthen quality assurance and implementation infrastructure

Opportunity 1: Biomarkers Find signals that make tests more sensitive or more clinically useful

Budget: US $350-750K

Duration: 18-24 Months

Opportunity 2: Specimen Innovations Make testing safer and easier

Budget: US $300-600K

Duration: 18-24 Months

Opportunity 3: Diagnostic Products Deliver tests that can be used where patients first present

Budget: US $300-800K

Duration: 24-36 Months

Opportunity 4: Surveillance and early warning Detect outbreaks earlier

Budget: US $300-600K

Duration: 24-36 Months

Opportunity 5: Quality and Implementation Make decentralized testing reliable, safe, and trusted

Budget: US $150-400K

Duration: 18-24 months

Research Authority due date: 26.7.26