Agency Update: ARPA-H Makes Major Announcements on Funding Opportunities, Personnel, and Locations

Please see the Lewis-Burke Associates' resport about the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) which has released its first Open Broad Agency Announcement (Open BAA) and announced a wide range of agency actions, including the hiring of its first program managers (PMs) and mission office directors, selection of its first of three physical sites or Hubs, solicitation of the remaining two Hubs, and a new “ARPA-H Dash” competition soliciting ideas from the health, scientific, and technology communities. Modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), ARPA-H is tasked with advancing high-risk, high-reward research with transformative potential to drive biomedical and health innovation.