DRIVe EZ-BAA Standard
Supports United States health-security innovators during early development stages with streamlined pathway contracting.
The BARDA Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures (DRIVe) Easy BAA Standard track is the fastest BARDA funding mechanism for early-stage health-security companies, capping awards at $750,000 per project under solicitation EZ-BAA-22-100-SOL-00003. DRIVe was established within BARDA to accelerate non-traditional health-security innovations and the EZ-BAA was designed to dramatically simplify …
Transformative health-security innovations across early R&D, non-clinical development, process development, formulation, data science and novel algorithms, clinical studies or clinical validation, manufacturing, regulatory activities, or real-world studies. Specific AOIs are published when funded.
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