Opportunities
Sprint for Women’s Health
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) aims to galvanize the innovator, investor, researcher, and patient advocate communities to proactively address women’s health challenges, raise awareness, and spur innovation. ARPA-H commits $100 million towards transformative research and development in women’s health as part of a new request for solutions (RFS) funding opportunity. Read more about the Sprint for Women’s Health.
ARPA-H announced a Request for Solutions (RFS) funding opportunity, soliciting ideas for novel, groundbreaking research and development to address women’s health, as well as opportunities to accelerate and scale tools, products, and platforms with potential for commercialization to improve women’s health outcomes. Awardees will develop unconventional approaches and innovative new avenues to push high-impact biomedical research forward.
Medical Imaging Data Marketplace—Network Survey
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) and the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are partnering to streamline access to affordable, high-quality, regulatory-ready medical imaging data. The agencies are exploring the development of a medical imaging data marketplace (MIDM) to expedite innovation in Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) and other artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML)-enabled medical devices.
In support of this initiative, the Investor Catalyst Hub issued a Network Survey to collect feedback about specific needs and challenges that medical imaging software and product developers, users of AI and ML medical imaging products, and private and public organizations face with utilizing, managing, and producing data for product development and evaluation.
ARPA-H HEROES
The ARPA-H HEalth care Rewards to Achieve Improved OutcomES (HEROES) program 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 nonprofits or care consortiums—that successfully implement preventative care campaigns that improve the rates for specific health harms in an entire geographic population.
HEROES is soliciting abstracts and proposals on four health outcomes: cardiovascular disease and risks, alcohol-related harms, opioid overdoses, and severe complications during pregnancy or birth. Find more information about HEROES, including the Draft Program Solicitation, available office hours, and upcoming webinars.