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Tong Sun, Assistant Dean of Translational Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington

ARPA-H: High-risk, high-reward health research is the mandate of new, billion-dollar US agency

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is meant to bring forward-thinking nimbleness to health innovation. Pixtum/iStock via Getty Images

A new multibillion-dollar federal agency was created with a goal of supporting “the next generation of moonshots for health” in science, logistics, diversity and equality. And the agency now has it’s first leader, as President Joe Biden announced Renee Wegrzyn as director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, on Sept. 12, 2022.

Since the announcement of the intention to establish ARPA-H two years ago, this new agency has sparked interest and questions within both academia and industry.

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