As part of the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has established the ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health, which commits $100 million towards transformative research and development in women’s health (The Cancer Letter, Nov 17, 2023).
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is setting up a network of partners that would enable the federal government to fund and roll out new initiatives nationwide.
A year ago, Renee Wegrzyn signed up for a very cool job. As the inaugural director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, she was to prove that the nontraditional, $2.5 billion experiment will yield the kind of high impact its high-risk investment model promises. Since Wegrzyn joined the agency in October 2022, ARPA-H has […]
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has established ARPANET-H, a nationwide health innovation network anchored by three ARPA-H regional hubs.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health will issue $240 million in cancer-related awards over the next few weeks, the White House announced at a Cancer Cabinet meeting Sept. 13.
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University received a three-year, $24.8 million cooperative agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to lead the CUREIT program: “Curing the Uncurable via RNA-Encoded Immunogene Tuning.”
You may want to know that (a) the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has decided on its first project and (b) it’s known under a neato acronym: NITRO.
President Joe Biden is requesting a $920 million increase to the NIH budget in fiscal year 2024, a 1.93% boost. Of that amount, $503 million, or nearly 55%, is slated for NCI, keeping funding for the majority of other NIH institutes and centers at FY23 levels.
NIH and NCI received a $2.5 billion and $408 million increase, respectively, in the fiscal year 2023 omnibus appropriations package that President Joe Biden signed into law Dec. 23.
Within two months of stepping in as director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, Renee Wegrzyn has grown her staff fivefold, built a website, juggled 30 congressional meetings, and met with 10 patient advocacy organizations.
