ARPA-H Overview
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is an independent entity within the National Institutes of Health. Its mission is to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone by supporting the development of high-impact solutions to society’s most challenging health problems. It does this by making pivotal investments in break-through technologies and broadly applicable platforms, capabilities, resources, and solutions that have the potential to transform important areas of medicine and health for the benefit of all patients that cannot readily be accomplished through traditional research or commercial activity.
ARPA-H focus areas include:
- Health Science Futures – Accelerating advances across research areas and removing limitations that stymie progress towards solutions.
- Scalable Solutions – Addressing challenges that include geography, distribution, manufacturing, data and information, and economics of scale to create programs that result in impactful, timely, and equitable solutions.
- Proactive Health – Reducing the likelihood that people become patients.
- Resilient Systems – Developing capabilities, business models, and integrations to endure crises such as pandemics, social disruption, and economic instability.
Eligibility Consideration:
One important eligibility consideration is that UIC can only submit a single proposal as the prime awardee. It therefore important to notify the Office of Research Development as soon as you decide you would like to apply for ARPA-H funding as the lead applicant so that we can confirm if it’s okay to proceed.
ARPA-H Resources:
Information about ARPA-H funding opportunities can be accessed here and on Grants.gov.