Pituffik -- Health Research Grant Discovery

Pituffik is an automated grant discovery system for health research funding opportunities. It crawls international funder websites and grant databases every six hours, deduplicates and verifies listings, enriches them with AI-powered relevance scoring and structured field extraction, converts amounts to GBP via ECB exchange rates, and delivers weekly email digests of the most relevant opportunities.

Thematic scope

• Health research broadly, with priority for psychosis and psychosis-adjacent clinical research
• Mental health, psychiatry, and severe mental illness
• Organisational, occupational, work, and I-O psychology
• Health psychology and behaviour change
• Epidemiology, causal inference, and registry-based research
• Digital health and AI in mental health

Sources

• UKRI Gateway to Research (UK)
• NIHR Funding and Awards (UK)
• Wellcome Trust (UK/global)
• NIH Reporter / Grants.gov (US)
• ERC / Horizon Europe (EU)
• DFF / Novo Nordisk / Lundbeck (Denmark)
• NordForsk (Nordic)
• Vetenskapsradet (Sweden)
• Norges Forskningsrad (Norway)
• NHMRC / ARC (Australia)

Technology

• Pipeline: Python, httpx, feedparser, BeautifulSoup, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
• Dashboard: Shiny for Python on Posit Connect Cloud
• Storage: SQLite (committed to git)
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions (crawl every 6 hours)
• Currency conversion: ECB exchange rates
• Notifications: Resend weekly email digests

AI Assistance Statement

This dashboard was vibe coded with the assistance of Claude Code powered by Opus 4.5.

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GitHub repository