🚀BREAKING NEWS: We're thrilled to launch our first program, NITRO, aimed at revolutionizing the care for millions suffering from osteoarthritis through groundbreaking approaches to tissue regeneration. Join us on this journey of discovery and innovation!
We are thrilled to announce Dr. Susan Monarez as our deputy director! Described as the ‘Kevin Bacon’ of biomedical innovation, Susan fosters a network of excellence and epitomizes our culture, values, and mission. (
@kevinbacon
, you have big shoes to fill!)
Today marks a historic moment as we launch the
#SprintForWomensHealth
! 🚀 This initiative is a bold move towards achieving gender equity in health care research and ensuring women's issues are represented. (1/2)
Our Mission: Accelerating better outcomes for everyone by supporting the development of high-impact solutions to society's most challenging health problems.
Thanks to our supporters:
@WhiteHouse
@POTUS
@SecBecerra
@HHSGov
@NIH
@WHOSTP
❗BREAKING NEWS: We're launching our first cancer-focused program, PSI, aimed at developing technologies to help surgeries for cancer and other conditions fix the problem perfectly👌✅, the first time!
NEW: We’re transforming cancer care with a revolutionary program called ADAPT!
How? By exploring cutting-edge technologies to monitor and target the ever-changing tumor landscape.
💥 Leaders Wanted 💥 We are actively seeking brilliant people to join and lead ambitious teams in support of our mission to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone.
NEW: Our first program, NITRO, has selected 5 performer teams to answer the question, “What if we could make our joints heal themselves?”. 🏆
Get to know the teams 👇
📢 NEW: We are thrilled to launch our ARPA-H Digital Health Security effort, a groundbreaking project to safeguard the U.S. healthcare system's electronic infrastructure. 🛡️ Join us in protecting vital healthcare data from cyber threats!
Calling all experts in digital health security! 📢Help advance the protection of the nation's healthcare systems by applying to DIGIHEALS through the SHARE BAA.
Together, we'll limit digital health software vulnerabilities & improve usability.
ARPA-H stands for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. Our agency tackles the toughest health problems head-on to drive solutions that can help everyone have a healthier future.
What if we could use
#AI
to help people with rare diseases? Enter MATRIX, an AI-driven project to deliver progress for Americans facing a rare disease.
We’re excited to work with
@EveryCure
and
@DavidFajgenbaum
to make this possible.
NEW: We’re partnering w/
@DARPA
on the Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) to safeguard the nation’s health care infrastructure from cyberattacks.
AIxCC will assemble the best in AI & cybersecurity to defend software on which Americans rely.
How do we create a health innovation network that reflects the people we serve?
Our ARPANET-H is one way we are opening up to a diverse talent pool and tapping into brilliance from all communities across the nation.
We’re listening – in 2021, our planning team held 15 listening sessions with +5,100 people. You said ARPA-H should focus on maximum impact by creating and accelerating technological capabilities that can be applied to many different diseases. On it.
You say you want a revolution. Well, our revolutionary cancer treatment program, ADAPT, is poised to transform cancer patient care. Here’s how WE want to change the world.
Join us for a Virtual Proposers’ Day on March 15!
Announcing our ARPA-H Dash to Accelerate Health Outcomes online competition!
Your challenge: Submit a revolutionary idea to transform health in 1 of 4 focus areas. The top 64 compete in a head-to-head vote to become the Grand Prize Winner.
#ARPAHDash
We hope to strike a nerve with this news!📢 Announcing our first investment in therapeutics for neurodegenerative conditions.
Our CT-NEURO project focuses on disorders that destroy nerve cell tissue and are particularly difficult to treat.
Why settle for just one perspective? We want a brilliant tapestry of diversity. Come collaborate with people from different backgrounds, expanding your horizons and knowledge.
We are fostering the next moonshots in health by accelerating tools, technologies, and platforms that can be applied across diseases like cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's.
#AspenIdeasHealth
@aspenideas
Bacterial infections remain the second leading cause of death worldwide. The DARTS project aims to address the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance and drive antibiotic discovery to improve health outcomes.
#ICYMI
We opened our first Open Broad Agency Announcement (Open BAA)! Proposals should investigate unconventional approaches, and challenge accepted assumptions to enable leaps forward in science, technology, systems, or related capabilities.
Let’s work together to increase access to
#CancerResearch
done anywhere, so that it benefits people everywhere. Together, we can end cancer as we know it and
#CloseTheCareGap
for all. Read how
@NCIGlobalHealth
is working towards this goal
Check out our latest program bringing together researchers in systems biology, bioinformatics, mathematical modeling, and oncology to address the challenge of treating ever-changing metastatic cancer, ADAPT!
We've made incredible progress against cancer, but this is at risk without continued federal investment in
@NIH
,
@theNCI
&
@ARPA_H
. We look forward to working with
@POTUS
& Congress so that everyone has a fair & just opportunity to prevent, detect, treat & survive cancer.
#SOTU
Let there be LIGHT! Our new program envisions a future where health care providers will have a scalable, accessible, accurate, and clinically useful comprehensive toolkit to assess lymphatic health.
What is that idea of yours that is so audacious, so unimaginably impossible, that people laugh at the thought of this new reality? What is your ARPA-H idea?
We are thrilled to share that
@ARPA_HDirector
, Dr. Renee Wegrzyn, has been named to the 2023
#TIME100NEXT
list! 👏👏👏
@Time
’s annual list recognizes pioneers across industries who are shaping the future!
It's a privilege to join the ranks of this year's
@TIME
remarkable leaders of tomorrow who are setting the direction for the future in their respective fields. 🌟👏
#TIME100NEXT
Explore the complete innovators list ➡
⚡️Power surge ⚡️We're still sparking with joy from officially launching our Customer Experience hub yesterday and illuminating the opportunities to partner with ARPA-H!
Exciting news! We are launching the
#SprintForWomensHealth
, a groundbreaking step towards advancing women's health and well-being.
@FLOTUS
@WhiteHouseGPC
Learn more, including how to register for the virtual Proposers’ Day 👇
ARPA-H isn’t about a single disease. It’s not about a single research field. It’s about people and finding solutions to improve our health, including in cancer research. It’s about you. It’s about me. It’s about all of us.
It’s simple—cancer research and prevention save lives.
Federal funding for these programs has played a role in every major advance against this disease for the last half century. Continued investment in
@NIH
,
@theNCI
,
@CDCgov
and
@ARPA_H
is essential.
#SOTU2023
#CancerMoonshot
‼️NEW: We are thrilled to launch our first Open BAA award, CUREIT, to develop new tools to strengthen the immune system and save lives. Congrats!
@EmoryUniversity
We’re going to focus on new opportunities in health data, diagnostics, treatments, disease prevention, and new ways to understand and design systems, scale, innovation, and equity. For you!
Calling all investors, early-stage companies & partners: RSVP for the in-person
@JLABS
2023
#BLUEKNIGHT
Symposium on June 4 in Boston, MA. Join the conversation about global
#HealthSecurity
advancements & opportunities for funding. Registration is free:
💥NEW RFI 💥 We are looking for novel insights, ideas, incentives, approaches, and models to help accelerate innovation while prioritizing patient safety for better health outcomes. Submit today!
Imagine if surgeries fixed problems perfectly the first time. Our first cancer-focused program, Precision Surgical Interventions, aims to improve the ability of surgeons to distinguish cancerous from healthy cells so surgery is successful the first time.
#SprintForWomensHealth
continues to make news 🗞️
"If we don’t hit the moon, which is a non-zero possibility, we can at least hit into lower orbit with some of our investments." -
@ARPA_HDirector
We’re headed to
#SXSW
!
@ARPA_HDirector
and
@mcuban
, two of healthcare's biggest disruptors in the federal government and private sector, are teaming up at
#SXSW2024
for: "Daring Disruption: Embracing Innovative Solutions in Health Care” on March 8!
What if we could use
#AI
to help people with rare diseases?
Our new MATRIX project will use this technology to understand how already approved drugs could be effective against other diseases, and we're working with
@EveryCure
to support this research.
I’m excited to be collaborating with forward-thinking visionaries at
#AspenIdeasHealth
. Looking forward to discussing my insights on driving biomedical innovation for better health for all. Check out the
@aspenideas
speaker preview:
What if we could ADAPT cancer treatments as tumors mutate and change? Our new program aims to do just that.
Join us for a Virtual Proposers’ Day on March 15!
📣 NEW: Our ARPA-H Biomedical Data Fabric (BDF) Toolbox will power health discoveries like never before with new technologies to capture and harmonize comprehensive research data.
What if … we could reliably diagnose all rare diseases within hours of birth? We aim to expand what is possible in health. We imagine a new, better future together.
#MGFA
How can we reach everyone quickly to ensure new health solutions are impactful, timely, and equitable?
Not rhetorical, we really want to know! Submit your idea to the
#ARPAHDash
.
We are pioneering the path to combat the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria with
@Harvardmed
through this groundbreaking project funded through our Open BAA!
#Innovation
🧵…1/4
Hello Dallas,
#TX30
home to our Customer Experience Hub! We are excited to engage with partners across the nation to push biomedical innovation farther, faster.
Thanks to our supporters
@RepJasmine
,
@RepKayGranger
,
@ATI_ORG
, and many others!
We have our 👀 on the prize with this new program!
The Transplantation of Human Eye Allografts (THEA) program aims to transplant whole human eyes to restore vision for the blind and visually impaired. Don’t overlook the importance of THEA! (Too cornea?)
NEW: Let's shorten the transplant waitlist with our innovative PRINT program!
Using bioprinting technology and regenerative medicine PRINT intends to create personalized, on demand organs that won’t require immunosuppressive drugs.
Us: A research funding agency that supports transformative biomedical and health breakthroughs.
You: A small business with expertise in innovative R&D.
Match made in heaven. ✨ Proposals due on July 3.
#SBIR
Last year, we launched NITRO, a program to help joints heal themselves, led by Program Manager Dr. Ross Uhrich, and today we announced the performer teams to lead breakthroughs in reversing osteoarthritis!
We are marking 100 days of progress since Dr. Renee Wegrzyn was appointed ARPA-H's inaugural director! We will continue to build our agency and advance our mission to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone.
If you become funded by ARPA-H, you will form a strong relationship with your Program Manager. They will have a seat at the table with you, make some decisions with you, sit in meetings – the whole shebang!
#OpenBAATuesday
Our new EMBODY program will challenge researchers to develop novel and more affordable ways to alter cells in a targeted way INSIDE the body, tweaking them to be more effective at treating infections.
Register for virtual Proposers' Day on April 18:
Exciting News! We launched a program to retrain immune cells to fight challenging diseases. EMBODY is all about affordable therapies and streamlined manufacturing.
💥NEW RFI 💥Do you have unique and creative ideas to inform innovative and productive public-private partnerships for better health outcomes? Submit today; materials will be reviewed on a rolling basis!
#medtech
#medtechinnovation
#Biotech
Want to make a difference? ARPA-H is the place to be! Your work has the potential to impact millions of lives, fostering equity and equal opportunities.
Our
@ARPA_HDirector
, Dr. Renee Wegrzyn, is speaking at
#AspenIdeasHealth
this summer, sharing big ideas and exploring bold approaches to better health for all.
👀 Speaker Sneak Peek! Get to know some of the visionary leaders who will take the stage at
#AspenIdeasHealth
(June 21-24) to share big ideas and bold approaches to better health for all:
We have a unique role in the health ecosystem to encourage participation in public-private partnerships, but we aren’t doing it alone! Be part of the conversation and submit your ideas for
@US_FDA
collaborations.
📣 OUT NOW: We are seeking proposals from small businesses that possess the expertise to conduct innovative research and development to contribute toward the agency’s mission!
Didn’t get the chance to submit an
#ARPAHDash
idea? Starting April 17 help shape the future of health by discussing, debating, and VOTING to narrow down submissions!
We’re flipping the health care payment model on its head with HEROES, a program dedicated to rewarding better health outcomes.
Register to attend HEROES webinars:
✨Program Toolkit webinar on 4/22
✨Ask Me Anything (AMA) webinars on 4/29 & 5/9 👇