This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Health and Human Services' Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) (CFDA 93.384) aims to develop a cutting-edge camera and integrated clinical workflow to improve the precise differentiation of cancerous tissues from healthy ones during surgical procedures. The $5,913,545 award has a performance period from August 15, 2024 to August 14, 2026. The project, led by The Johns Hopkins University, integrates photoacoustic,...
This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services' Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) program (CFDA 93.384), aims to develop a functional prototype system called "MARGINCALL" that can provide rapid, high-resolution histopathology imaging and AI-guided analysis to reduce the need for repeat surgeries. The $8,945,662 award to Emory University, with sub-awards to Indiana University and Eindhoven University of Technology, will...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Health and Human Services' Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) program, CFDA 93.384, provides $6,592,011 to develop and validate the AccessPath system - an affordable, end-to-end digital pathology solution for intraoperative tumor margin assessment. The award aims to address the limited use of surgical pathology for margin assessment in rural and low-resource settings due to infrastructure and human resource constraints....
This $9,433,900 Cooperative Agreement awarded 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) funds the development of an innovative tissue scanning and cancer detection system called "Magic Scan" by Tulane University. The key objectives are to: (1) develop an ultra-high speed, high-resolution tissue scanner that can image over 450 sq. cm of surgical tissue at 250 nm resolution...
This $8,538,979 Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), CFDA 93.384, aims to create a full set of modular tools for autonomous robotic surgery and the supporting perceptual and logical framework to integrate them into complete procedures. The project team at Vanderbilt University will develop autonomous capabilities across seven core surgical tasks - retraction, resection, hemostasis, proprioception, debridement, palpation, and suturing. The...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $13,340,331 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) federal grant program (CFDA 93.384) to develop a "MARGIN DIAGNOSTICS (MARGINDX): INTRAOPERATIVE LABEL-FREE MULTI-SCALE MULTI-MODAL OPTICAL SURGICAL IMAGING, GUIDANCE, AND DECISION-MAKING PLATFORM". This platform aims to address the challenge of high positive surgical margin rates...
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 $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program supports the development of an innovative, intelligent surgical probe for prostate cancer treatment. The project aims to create an edge artificial intelligence (AI) system-on-chip for bioimpedance analysis that can accurately distinguish cancerous from healthy tissue during prostate removal surgery. The novel technology being developed includes an adaptive filter to...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the "Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health" program (CFDA 93.286) provides $709,358 to develop and validate an artificial intelligence (AI) surgical coaching system to enhance surgical performance and patient outcomes during urologic endoscopy procedures. The project aims to create AI and machine learning models that can...
The University of Washington has been awarded a Cooperative Agreement by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the "Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health" program (CFDA 93.286). The $2,758,909 award, effective August 1, 2024 through May 31, 2029, supports the development of an innovative dual-mode breast cancer scanner that combines Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and X-Ray Tomosynthesis (DBT)....