Biological Sciences

Lewis-Burke has provided campus with a report about ARPA-H's new Emerging Health Innovators (EHI) Initiative, which aims to engage, identify, and fund early career investigators and community innovators to ultimately increase access to federal funding and bridge existing healthcare gaps across the United States. As a first step, ARPA-H is launching a Network Survey, which will gather input from the research community to identify research topics and technologies that the...

Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC periodically provides campus with a Washington Update report. In this report:

Lewis-Burke Assosicates have provided us with a report about NSF and NIH's new collaborative program, Biomedical Research Initiative for Next-Gen BioTechnologies – SynBio Control (BRING SynBio). BRING SynBio is a two-phased program that seeks to support fundamental synthetic and engineering biology research and accelerate its translation into early-stage, biomedical technologies specifically focused on the use of biological control theory. Please see the report for more...

Lewis-Burke has provided campus with a report about the potential implications of the November elections on overall U.S. research and development (R&D) priorities for the next Administration. While there are currently limited details on R&D priorities for a second Trump or a Harris Administration, we assume a future President Harris would have similar priorities as President Biden (with some additional new signature initiatives expected), and we also consider what...