ARPA-H Initiatives & Sprints
Runs fast-turnaround health technology opportunities in United States for high-potential exploratory science and engineering.
ARPA-H Initiatives and Sprints are the agency's accelerated funding tracks, designed to move from proposal submission to executed agreement significantly faster than the standard Program ISO pipeline. Unlike Program ISOs, which target a single well-defined technical goal over multiple years, Initiatives bundle a range of topics under a common acceleration or integration framework and are structure…
Topics that span the ARPA-H mission, structured as exploratory or accelerator-style investments. Current example: TIGAR (Technology InteGrator and AcceleratoR) Exploratory Topic.
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