Sprint for Women’s Health

An ARPA-H Funding Opportunity to Address Critical Unmet Challenges in Women’s Health

Request for Solutions Is Closed

Submissions are closed for the ARPA-H request for solutions (RFS) funding opportunity (Solicitation# ARPA-H-ICHUB-24-101). View your submission and selection status through the BIDS submission platform.

ARPA-H had an unprecedented response of submissions, representing 45 states, the District of Columbia, and 34 countries, received from a mix of scientific visionaries from across the globe and sectors. More than half of those submissions came from organizations with less than 50 people. Read more about submission highlights.

ARPA-H Program Managers reviewed all submissions. Email notifications were sent to all proposers for topics two through five on June 14, and to all proposers for topics one and six on July 8. Organizations invited to pitch received notifications about their selection status for the Invitation for Collaboration and Negotiation (IC&N) process on August 16. Pitch and IC&N notifications are selection sensitive information and will not be made public. Submit your questions about the Sprint for Women’s Health here.

The Sprint for Women’s Health solution library is a confidential repository of submissions accessible only to the federal government, and will allow for consideration for future funding opportunities. Government agencies interested in improving and advancing women’s health can request access to explore a diverse portfolio of proposals that have been vetted for relevance to women’s health, alignment with health topics, and technical merit.

While the Sprint for Women’s Health submissions are closed, additional opportunities to engage with ARPA-H include:

Key Dates*

  • Draft Request for Solutions (RFS) posted: Monday, March 4, 2024
  • Virtual Proposers’ Day: Wednesday, March 6, 2024. Watch the event recording and access the event slides.
  • Submissions opened: Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 5:00 p.m. ET
  • Submission deadline: Monday, April 15, 2024, 12:00 p.m. ET (CLOSED)
  • Pitch phase: Summer 2024
  • IC&N notifications sent: August 15, 2024
  • Invitation for Collaboration & Negotiation (IC&N): Summer/Fall 2024
  • Award: Fall 2024

*Dates are notional and dependent on the number of submissions received.

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About the ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) supports biomedical and health breakthroughs that can deliver transformative, financially sustainable, and broadly applicable health solutions for everyone. ARPA-H is addressing critical unmet challenges in women’s health across all demographics, geographies, and socioeconomic statuses, championing transformative innovations and tackling health conditions that uniquely or disproportionately affect women from every walk of life.

Through the “Sprint for Women’s Health,” ARPA-H is galvanizing the innovator, investor, researcher, and patient advocate communities to proactively address women’s health challenges, raise awareness, and spur innovation with two significant funding opportunity tracks, up to a total of $100 million. These funding opportunity tracks foster transformative research & development (R&D) efforts—from “Spark,” early-stage research, to “Launchpad,” later-stage development—that impact and enhance women’s health outcomes.

With both funding opportunities, ARPA-H is lowering entry barriers for a diverse range of participants, with a simplified submission process of an abstract followed by a pitch session.