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Check Whether Your Research Is a Good Fit for ARPA-H

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) aims to advance high-potential, high-impact biomedical and health research that cannot be readily accomplished through traditional research or commercial activity.
Dr. Renee Wegrzyn serves as the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)

Opportunities and Resources

This opportunity encourages discovery and development of small molecule compounds with activity against viral targets that could be administered orally as monotherapy or in combination with other drugs to treat infections caused by viruses of pandemic potential.
Investigate and advance the mechanistic understanding on how immune ontogeny and functionality in early life could be harnessed in the context of HIV vaccines and broadly neutralizing antibodies to protect against acquisition of HIV infection. 
Apply for funding to conduct innovative basic, translational, and clinical research to identify and address epigenetic treatment strategies for achieving hepatitis B virus (HBV) cure in people living with HIV.

In The News

The draft Public Access Policy builds upon NIH’s history of providing public access to scholarly publications resulting from the research it supports and proposes additional steps to accelerate access. 
A central goal of NIH policies is to ensure that the demographics of participants in our clinical research will inform clinical practice to benefit people who are affected by the disease or condition under study.
Change in Prior Approval Requirements for SBIR/STTR Recipients to Add a Subaward; Funding for Meetings to Support Data Harmonization of Autoimmune Disease Research

Advice Corner

NIAID caps R01 research project grant renewals at 20 percent above the direct costs of the last competing award period, less the costs of certain items like subawards’ facilities and adminsitrative costs.

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Email us at deaweb@niaid.nih.gov for help navigating NIAID’s grant and contract policies and procedures.