ARPA-H Sculpting Health to Augment Patient Experience (SHAPE)

ARPA-H Sculpting Health to Augment Patient Experience (SHAPE) sits within the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, the U.S. federal health-research agency. It is a grant program focused on patient experience and digital health, with a US geography flag and a one-off call structure. Awards run from $500,000 to $20 million, with a median actual award of $2 million. The program is limited to US-based for-profit applicants. Nonprofits and individuals are excluded, the TRL window is 3 to 7, and the same scope cannot be stacked onto another award. The size range suggests a portfolio that can back both early platform work and later-stage integrations, but always inside a defined health-delivery use case. In practice SHAPE fits teams building tools that change how patients experience care rather than broad clinical infrastructure. The program is a good match where digital health, workflow redesign, or patient-facing software can show a clear path from early concept to deployable service. Its one-off structure makes application timing more important than a standing annual cycle.

No upcoming rounds verified. Cadence: One-off.