Ready for take­off: ARPA-H in­tros plan to at­tract project in­vestors, com­mer­cial­ize prod­ucts

The new­ly-ap­point­ed di­rec­tor of the Ad­vanced Re­search Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), Re­nee We­grzyn, up­dat­ed the NIH Ad­vi­so­ry Com­mit­tee to the Di­rec­tor to­day on the brand-new de­part­ment and her plans for hir­ing, at­tract­ing R&D projects and cap­i­tal in­vest­ments for those projects.

ARPA-H, a new NIH-housed agency that’s look­ing to fill R&D gaps and go a step fur­ther than the NIH to at­tack riski­er, po­ten­tial­ly more re­ward­ing bio­med­ical in­no­va­tion, said it’s fo­cus­ing on four main pri­or­i­ties to be­gin: ac­cel­er­at­ing ad­vances that ap­ply to a range of dis­eases; tack­ling sup­ply chain and man­u­fac­tur­ing chal­lenges; pre­ven­ta­tive pro­grams; and build­ing re­silient sys­tems. Pres­i­dent Joe Biden ap­point­ed We­grzyn in No­vem­ber.

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