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‘Open for business’: risk-taking US health agency ready to spend $2.5-billion budget

One year after the launch of ARPA-H, Nature talks to director Renee Wegrzyn about her vision for the agency.
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Launched one year ago by the administration of US President Joe Biden, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has announced its first call for research proposals. The agency, armed with a US$2.5 billion budget, aims to shake up the conventional model of funding biomedical research — which some deem too slow and conservative — by funding high-risk, high-reward projects.

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Nature 615, 778 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00817-4

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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