BARDA DRIVe Solving Sepsis Initiative

BARDA DRIVe Solving Sepsis Initiative targets sepsis diagnostics and monitoring tools that can identify infection earlier in the care pathway. It sits under BARDA's DRIVe platform and is aimed at pre-hospital, urgent-care, and post-discharge settings. The program offers grants from $250k to $10m, with a median actual award of $750k, and it is open on a rolling basis. Eligibility is limited to U.S.-based for-profit companies; nonprofits and individuals are excluded. The technical window is TRL 3-7, there is a 50% founder-citizenship threshold, and the same scope cannot be stacked with other support. The best fit is a company with a device or sensor concept that can improve early identification, monitoring, or triage for sepsis without requiring a long clinical explanation. Strong proposals will show why the workflow is practical outside the hospital, how the signal is measured, and why the system can change clinical timing rather than just restate an existing test. BARDA will care most about a clear path from signal to action.

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