ARPA-H Open Opportunities
ARPA-H
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is a research funding agency that supports transformative biomedical and health breakthroughs – ranging from the molecular to the societal – to provide health solutions for all. Below are the current NIH ARPA-H opportunities and due dates.
If you have not applied to ARPA-H or have questions about the program and/or opportunities (or missed the opportunity Proposer's Day), please connect with Quyen Wickham (quyen.wickham@asu.edu).
So that you know, some of these opportunities may be limited submissions. Please let me know if you are interested in pursuing any of these.
ARPA-H BREATHE
The Building Resilient Environments for Air and Total HEalth (BREATHE) program envisions smart building systems that monitor and respond to changes in indoor air quality. Green buildings balance thermal comfort and energy efficiency and BREATHE aims to employ similar approaches to handle indoor pathogen and allergen exposure. To succeed, BREATHE will need to develop tools to sense airborne bioaerosols, assess indoor air quality exposure risk, and deliver cost-effective building interventions to improve human health.
https://arpa-h.gov/research-and-funding/programs/breathe
- Proposers’ Day: May 2nd, 2024
- Solution Summary Due Date: June 14th, 2024
- Anticipated Proposal Due Date: August 19th, 2024
ARPA-H HEROES
HEalth care Rewards to Achieve Improved OutcomES (HEROES) aims to trial and validate a radically different approach to creating preventative care incentives in the health market. This approach involves offering direct payments to individual “health accelerators” – such as non-profits or care consortiums – that successfully implement preventative care campaigns that improve the rates for specific health harms in an entire geographic population.
https://arpa-h.gov/research-and-funding/programs/heroes
Note: There are ASU teams currently working on Opioids and Maternal Health. Contact me for more information.
- Solution Summary Due Date: June 28, 2024
- Proposal Due Date: November 15, 2024
ARPA-H PRINT
PRINT focuses on three technical areas with the end goal of restoring normal tissue function. The first technical area aims to generate the necessary cell types for organ bioprinting, via blood draw, biopsy, or biobank generation. The second technical area involves large scale manufacturing of cell types. The third technical area focuses on organ biofabrication and testing for safety and efficacy. Performers are encouraged to explore multiple methods for achieving the goals of each technical area.
https://arpa-h.gov/research-and-funding/programs/print
Solutions summary due date: May 28, 2024
Proposal due date: August 20, 2024 (tentative)
ARPA-H LIGHT
The Lymphatic Imaging, Genomics, and pHenotyping Technologies (LIGHT) program seeks comprehensive diagnostic solutions across three technical areas: diagnosis and monitoring through biomarker discovery; imaging technologies; and prevention, prediction, and diagnostic confirmation through genetics, epigenetics, and models of lymphatic dysfunction. If successful, LIGHT will not only illuminate the unseen aspects of the lymphatic system through novel diagnostic approaches, but also significantly improve patient care and outcomes.
https://arpa-h.gov/research-and-funding/programs/light
Proposer's Day: May 21, 2024
Solution Summary Due: June 11, 2024
Note: this is a known limited submission.
ARPA-H CARE-ET
Chatbot Accuracy and Reliability Evaluation (CARE) aims to develop novel technical approaches for large-scale, human-expert-level evaluation of medical chatbot output for patient-facing applications. By developing and testing proof-of-concept evaluation technologies for LLMs across a variety of use cases, this Exploration Topic (ET) will provide a critical resource for chatbot developers and regulators. CARE endeavors to produce tools and technology for evaluation of medical chatbots with the efficiency of computational methods and the accuracy of human experts. This technology will not only assess safety by detecting hallucinations but will improve the utility and reduce the bias of medical chatbots by considering stakeholder desires and concerns.
Proposal due date: June 3, 2024
ARPA-H Autonomous Robotic Surgery
An RFI recently closed for this future opportunity. If you have questions about preparing for this opportunity, please contact Quyen Wickham.