The Advanced Research Project Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, is seeking proposals for a funding opportunity to develop new tools designed to improve clinical trial administration.
ARPA-H said Monday that through the Advancing Clinical Trial Readiness, or ACTR, initiative, it will award funding to multiple teams to create a robust, efficient and decentralized trial infrastructure and overcome challenges, including high costs, lack of interoperability among electronic health records and other data systems, trial recruitment and regulatory complexities.
Better Access to Clinical Studies
According to the agency, which operates within the Department of Health and Human Services, the infrastructure and tools are expected to enable 90 percent of eligible Americans to participate in clinical studies within 30 minutes of their home.
“Improvements in trial administration—from data collection to recruitment—can dramatically accelerate delivery of innovations to patients,” said ACTR Portfolio Lead Etta Pisano.
ARPA-H is interested in proposals focused on automated data collection and standardization, trial participant identification and engagement, and decentralized data curation and auditing.
Proposer’s Day
Interested parties may attend a hybrid Proposer’s Day on Jan. 16 in New Jersey to learn more about the ACTR effort and seek answers to questions related to the funding opportunity. In-person attendees have until Jan. 9 to register while virtual attendees may register until Jan. 14.
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