The New Kid on the Block: ARPA-H

Well, it isn't approved yet, but it seems as if there is gonna be a new funding agency, for the time being housed within NIH, called ARPA-H (ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY FOR HEALTH (ARPA-H)): ARPA-H Recent advances in biomedical science—from immunotherapy to treat cancer, to the highly effective COVID-19 vaccines—demonstrate the strengths and successes of the U.S. biomedical enterprise. www.nih.gov It doesn't really have much structure to it at the moment, but it sounds like a joint non-profit/for-profit type of model like DARPA for competitions surrounding "high-risk, high-reward" innovations in biomedical science. Having done peer-review for DARPA, I... Read more
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