This Cooperative Agreement award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) provides $2,740,067 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as the Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania, to conduct scientific feasibility research. The purpose of this modification is to incrementally fund Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) 0001 in the amount of $1,015,845. The award has an...
This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $58,923,479.00, was granted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) program (CFDA 93.384). The purpose of the award is to "Structurally Enable the 'Avoid-ome' to Accelerate Drug Discovery" through transformative biomedical and health research. The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is the primary awardee and will conduct high-risk, high-reward research projects...
The Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center has awarded a $18,474,445 Cooperative Agreement to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) program. The funding will support Columbia University's project to "INDIPHARM: INDIVIDUAL METABOLOME AND EXPOSOME ASSESSMENT FOR PHARMACEUTICAL OPTIMIZATION", which aims to revolutionize pharmacology by delivering a high-resolution precision monitoring...
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has been awarded a $31,110,405.00 Cooperative Agreement by the Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) program (CFDA 93.384). This 5-year award, effective April 1, 2024, supports the development of a "Programmable Platform for Targeting Therapies to the Brain" to advance cell therapies for neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration. The ARPA-H...
This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) program (CFDA 93.384), provides $8,945,662.00 in funding to Emory University to develop a functional prototype system called "MARGINCALL" that can rapidly image surgical specimen contours, mark resection margins, and use AI to map cancer and assess tumor proximity to margins. The goal is to reduce current rates of lumpectomy...
This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $11,574,776.00 and awarded on September 16, 2024, is funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) program (CFDA 93.384). The project aims to develop personalized radiopharmaceuticals for PET imaging-based diagnosis and targeted cancer treatment. Key objectives include designing custom ligands targeted to cancer cell membrane proteins and developing two...
The University of Pennsylvania received a $3.2 million Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging to develop artificial intelligence strategies for Alzheimer's disease research. The five-year award, made under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866), will support the creation of three novel biomedical informatics methods tailored for analyzing large-scale Alzheimer's disease data using the PennAI software platform. Specifically, the University will develop a multi-modal...
This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) federal grant program (CFDA 93.384), provides $4,116,367 to Northeastern University and its sub-awardees University of Washington, Johns Hopkins University, and Massachusetts General Hospital. The funding supports the development of a "Fully Integrated Acousto-Optical Electronic-Photonic System for Real-Time In Vivo 3D Photoacoustic...
This $997,693 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to develop an interactive health assessment and monitoring platform to improve patient-provider communication and reduce healthcare costs. The project by Literaseed, Inc. integrates electronic health record (EHR) data with natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract valuable information from medical records, enabling...
This federal Project Grant award for $506,632.00, provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program, is intended to support the "ACCELERATING POST-TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY RESEARCH THROUGH DATA INTEGRATION AND VERIFIABLE ANALYSIS AT SCALE" initiative. The award was granted to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as the Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania, a prominent private research...