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Inventing the internet and pioneering satellite navigation, U.S. government agency DARPA has had an illustrious history since being founded by President Eisenhower (as the Advanced Research Projects Agency) on February 7th, 1958.  Created in response to the Soviets launching Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite, its mission, which continues to this day, is ‘to prevent technological surprise.' In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly uncover how DARPA helped create the humble computer mouse; explain how former Nazi Wernher von Braun found his way to the head of this supposedly All-American organisation; and look forward to a world of self-sustaining surveillance robots eating us out of house and home… Further Reading: • ‘Fifty years of DARPA: A surprising history' (New Scientist, 2008): https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13908-fifty-years-of-darpa-a-surprising-history/ • ‘The Nazi Science That Fed the Apollo 11 Moon Landing' (Time, 2019): https://time.com/5627637/nasa-nazi-von-braun/ • ‘3 of the strangest projects DARPA has worked on' (Tech Insider, 2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hSs0S5FVx8 Love the show? Support us!  Join 

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Dr. Andrew Brack, Program Manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), discusses PROSPR (Proactive Solutions for Prolonging Resilience), an ambitious new program aimed at extending human healthspan. In this wide-ranging conversation, Chris and Andrew explore how PROSPR plans to accelerate the development of therapies that target aging itself by building the regulatory and scientific infrastructure needed to measure and improve health during aging. They discuss PROSPR's innovative approaches to in-home data collection, biomarker development, and clinical trial design that could compress decades-long studies into just three years.The Finer Details:The mission and structure of ARPA-H as a catalyst for healthcare innovationHow PROSPR aims to build "train tracks" for the longevity therapeutics industryThe program's novel approach to measuring health through intrinsic capacityStrategies for compressing clinical trials from decades to yearsThe economic impact of extending healthspan by just one yearPlans for first- and second-generation therapeutics targeting agingThe role of in-home health monitoring in future clinical trialsQuote: "We have this moral imperative to close the gap between the length that we are living and the number of years that we're living in good health."Links:PROSPR websiteProposers' Day registration

Energy is fundamental to economic development. It propels manufacturing, transportation, and construction, and throughout history, it's been the driver of human prosperity. But as global population continues to increase, and countries develop, energy use could double by the end of this century—with much of that increase concentrated in the developing world.  Meeting that demand while ensuring we stay on track to reach a net- zero future is a massive challenge. It means leveraging both new innovations and scaling up the technologies that are already available. It also means increasing investment, as emerging markets and developing economies outside China account for only around 15% of clean energy spending.  Why is energy a critical enabler of development? What would it mean to electrify everything, and is that even possible? And what role will existing technologies like nuclear power play in a net-zero world? This week, a re-run of host Jason Bordoff's conversation with Eric Toone from July of this year where they discussed the challenges of increasing energy access in the developing world while rapidly cutting emissions.  Eric is the technical lead on the Investment Committee at Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Before joining Breakthrough in 2017, he was the vice provost and director of the Duke University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry. From 2009 to 2012 he was detailed to the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency, where he served as program director and deputy director for Technology.

A unit of Health and Human Services recently made grants to four academic and industry teams to do miracles. Enabling the blind to see. The awardees will work on technologies to enable transplantation of the human eye. For details, from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, program manager Calvin Roberts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A unit of Health and Human Services recently made grants to four academic and industry teams to do miracles. Enabling the blind to see. The awardees will work on technologies to enable transplantation of the human eye. For details, from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, program manager Calvin Roberts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the fifth Season of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke's Building Up the Nerve podcast, we help you strengthen your science communication skills with tools and advice to use throughout your career. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help—it's our job!In the fifth episode of the season, we talk about Securing Funding for Research focusing on choosing what funding to apply for, “pitching” your science to different funders, and writing effective grant applications.Featuring Sonya Dumanis, PhD, Executive Vice President of the Coalition for Aligning Science and Deputy Director for Aligning Science Across Parkinson's; Kat M. Steele, PhD, Associate Director of CREATE and Albert Kobayashi Professor in Mechanical Engineering at University of Washington; and Gene Yeo, PhD, MBA, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at University of California, San Diego and Chief Scientific Advisor, Sanford Laboratories for Innovative Medicine.ResourcesNIH Funding OpportunitiesSmall Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants: https://seed.nih.gov/small-business-funding/small-business-program-basics/understanding-sbir-sttr NINDS Funding Opportunities: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/find-funding-opportunities NINDS Training & Career Development Opportunities: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/training-career-development NIH ResourcesEarly Career Reviewer program: https://public.csr.nih.gov/ForReviewers/BecomeAReviewer/ECR NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/ Early Stage Investigator (ESI) Policies: https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/early-stage-investigators NINDS Guidelines for incorporating rigor into grant applications: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/preparing-your-application/preparing-research-plan/rigorous-study-design-and-transparent-reporting NIH Activity Codes: https://grants.nih.gov/funding/activity-codes Allen Institute's Allen Distinguished Investigators: https://alleninstitute.org/division/frontiers-group/distinguished-investigators/ Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H): https://arpa-h.gov/ Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP) Disease – Collaborative Research Network (CRN): https://parkinsonsroadmap.org/research-network/# California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) grants: https://www.cirm.ca.gov/ Transcript available at http://ninds.buzzsprout.com/.

President Joe Biden will issue a memo and framework on the use of AI in the context of national security Thursday, with the aim of providing steps for U.S. leadership and guardrails for governance of the technology. Under the memo, agencies will be directed to access “the most powerful AI systems and put them to use,” senior administration officials who briefed reporters on the memo ahead of its release said. The memo will also bolster the role of the AI Safety Institute and provide direction to agencies for AI use for national security. The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, known as ARPA-H, is seeking information about how autonomous artificial intelligence systems, known as agentic AI, might be used in the health care space. A recent request for information posted by the Department of Health and Human Services agency specifically asks for information on implementations of agentic AI, how multiple agentic AI systems work together, scalability, risks, and how autonomy is decided, among other things. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Monday-Friday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify and YouTube.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has launched a new program providing health care organizations a rapid and secure cyber solution that will protect their infrastructure from threats and prevent disruptions in patient care. ARPA-H Resilient Systems Program Manager Andrew Carney discusses the Universal Patching Intermediation for Autonomous Defense (UPGRADE) program and how it offers medical facilities protection from ransomware attacks by automatically providing proactive and scalable updates to their IT systems. Carney highlighted another ARPA-H program called the Digital Health Security Initiative (DIGIHEALS) that's addressing vulnerabilities in data security. He also shared details about the agency's collaborative efforts with its defense counterpart, DARPA.

Artificial intelligence has penetrated deeply into the world of medical devices. The DA has approved nearly a thousand AI-enabled medical gadgets. Given that nature of AI, the question must be asked: How to keep these devices working properly overtime. That's a question the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health seeks to answer. For details, we turn to ARPA-H program manager Berkman Sahiner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Artificial intelligence has penetrated deeply into the world of medical devices. The DA has approved nearly a thousand AI-enabled medical gadgets. Given that nature of AI, the question must be asked: How to keep these devices working properly overtime. That's a question the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health seeks to answer. For details, we turn to ARPA-H program manager Berkman Sahiner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeffrey Besos, known for founding Amazon and building it into a $2 trillion company, did not start from nothing as many believe. While his story of turning a $250,000 investment from his parents into an empire is well known, few are aware of the deeper connections that shaped his path. Besos's grandfather, Lawrence P. Guy, played a pivotal role in the formation of ARPA, the U.S. government's super-secret Advanced Research Projects Agency, which later became DARPA. DARPA was instrumental in creating the Internet and advancements in high-speed networking, voice recognition, and more. Coincidentally or not, one year before Guy's untimely death in 1995, Besos founded Amazon in his Bellevue, Washington garage. Some see this as a symbolic "passing of the torch" in technological dominance. Jeffrey's success in leveraging these deep connections continues to raise questions about the unseen forces that influence modern industry and government. His rise exemplifies how words, symbols, and hidden systems of power shape our reality without us even realizing it.

Government systems often take a lot of flack for their (sometimes) built-in inability to take risks and make big bets. So, what would it take to encourage the government to take those big, risky moonshots? For Health, that's the role of ARPA-H – to fund new ways of improving health by investing in people with big ideas. We sat down with ARPA-H Director Renee Wegrzyn at Aspen Ideas Health to talk about how it's going and what comes next. We discuss:Why ARPA-H is personal for President Biden.How ARPA-H's special authorities – from flexible hiring to novel contracting – are its secret weapons for speed and scale.The critical role of Program Managers – single decision maker driving the vision and execution of each $50-$200 million initiative.Renee says ARPA-H gives her the ability to direct funds into areas that are sometimes left off the list of “must haves” for innovation:“...one of the only top down things I've done as a director is said, ‘Why aren't we funding more in women's health? We don't have any program managers in the pipeline that want to exclusively focus on this'. But I think we all inherently understand that women are underrepresented in almost every aspect of health. So I asked our [Program Managers].. who wants to raise [a] hand and pick a topic that is really either unique to women, or is disproportionately affecting women that we can do a sprint and invest around. And so I got six Program Managers to come up with topics, everything from Women's Health at home, to brain health, to understanding and quantifying pain – and through the Investor Catalyst Hub we have worked with investors to understand what kind of convincing scale do we need to get to for you to be the second investor. And we competed this across the country.”Relevant LinksAbout ARPA-H ARPA-H Health Equity Factsheet The Minor Consult Podcast EpisodeARPA - H TimelineYoutube Conversation with New Yorker writerWhite House FAQ Sheet on ARPA-HAbout Our GuestDr. Renee Wegrzyn is the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), appointed by President Biden on October 11, 2022. Previously, she was the Vice President of Business Development at Ginkgo Bioworks and Head of Innovation at Concentric by Ginkgo, where she focused on synthetic biology for combating infectious diseases like COVID-19.Wegrzyn has experience with DARPA and IARPA, the models for ARPA-H. At DARPA, she used synthetic biology and gene editing to enhance biosecurity and the bioeconomy, managing programs like Living Foundries, Safe Genes, PREPARE, and DIGET. She received the Superior Public Service Medal for her DARPA work. Her career includes leading biosecurity and gene therapy teams in private industry, developing immunoassays and diagnostics. Wegrzyn has served on various scientific advisory boards, including those for the National Academies and the Air Force Research Labs. She holds a Ph.D. and a bachelor's degree in applied biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology and completed...

Originally broadcast August 8, 2024 The director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) knows the eyes of the nation are on her. Renee Wegrzyn, Ph.D., leads the billion-dollar effort charged with leveraging research advances for real-world impact. Wegrzyn talked with hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter at Aspen Ideas: Health about the agency's initiatives, including a $100 million sprint for women's health and creating tissue-specific delivery of therapies. “How can we pursue some of these breakthroughs —... Read More Read More The post Self-healing joints? Perfect surgeries? Your tax $$ could make it happen appeared first on Healthy Communities Online.

Michael Rowley, President and CEO of Stillwater Critical Minerals (TSX.V: PGE – OTCQB: PGEZF), joins me to review the recent news out regarding the collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ("Berkeley Lab"), with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy ("DOE") via the Advanced Research Projects Agency program, to study the potential for geologic hydrogen production at its flagship Stillwater West Ni-PGE-Cu-Co + Au project in Montana.   Funding in the amount of U.S. $2 million has been secured by Berkeley Lab to advance the "Cyclic Injection for Commercial Seismic-Safe Geologic H2 Production (CyclicGeoH2)" project, led by Berkeley Lab Research Scientist Dr. Mengsu Hu in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Texas at Austin. The team is developing technologies for geologic hydrogen production that address the challenge of extracting hydrogen both safely and economically at commercial scale. The technology involves the use of adaptive controls of fracture creation followed by serpentinization reactions to generate and subsequently extract hydrogen to a wellhead.   Mike also highlighted that the Company has partnered in 2023 with Cornell University that received government funding to partner with Stillwater Critical Minerals researching the potential for carbon sequestration at Stillwater West.  This brings in the larger discussion of navigating the complex series of government bodies and processes to procure funding and partnerships between the government, higher education institutions, and critical minerals companies.  Stillwater Critical Minerals has been successful in aligning themselves in the process, which is attracting more interest from funds focused on legitimate ESG initiatives, and has put them on the radar of more government bodies looking to develop supply chains of critical minerals, while doing it in a more green manner.  Carbon sequestration and capturing geological hydrogen can only be possible in a development scenario at Stillwater West, and points to the significance of the growing domestic critical minerals resources in Montana.   If you have any questions for Mike regarding Stillwater Critical Minerals, then please email me at  Shad@kereport.com.   In full disclosure, Shad is a shareholder of Stillwater Critical Minerals at the time of this recording.   Click here to follow along with the latest news from Stillwater Critical Minerals

This month we're joined by Ilan Gur, CEO of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (or ARIA), a government body set up last year to fund ambitious, breakthrough innovations.Before joining Aria, Gur was a programme director at ARPA-E, the US government's Advanced Research Projects Agency, which was established to develop new cutting-edge technologies to generate, store and use energy. He's also been a founder — starting two companies in Silicon ValleyWe discuss what technologies he's most excited about today, covering topics from neuroscience to “programmable plants” to fight climate change.

In this episode of Innovate and Elevate, Sharon Kedar is joined by Dr. Renee Wegrzyn, the inaugural director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a government agency designed to drive high-impact health innovations. Appointed by President Biden in 2022, Dr. Wegrzyn shares her deep experience in both synthetic biology and biosecurity, drawing from her work at DARPA, IARPA, and Ginkgo Bioworks.The conversation dives into the unique role of government in fostering breakthrough technologies, emphasizing ARPA-H's mission to transform health outcomes. Dr. Wegrzyn explains how ARPA-H takes on ambitious, high-risk projects with the potential to revolutionize healthcare, much like DARPA's past successes in defense technologies, such as the early development of mRNA technology.Dr. Wegrzyn highlights ARPA-H's approach to maximizing the return on investment for American taxpayers by focusing on scalable, impactful solutions that can transition to the private sector. She walks listeners through transformative projects, including NITRO, GLIDE, ADAPT, and POSEIDON. ARPA-H has a unique Program Management structure, which provides hands-on mentorship and support to ARPA-H grantees. Dr. Wegrzyn identifies how the partnership helps innovators address cost, accessibility, and user experience in health innovations. Sharon and Dr. Wegrzyn also discuss the ARPA-H's Sprint for Women's Health and how the funding opportunity addresses critical unmet challenges in the women's health sector. Episode Outline(01:50) How the US Government Drives Innovation (04:01) The Return on Investment to Americans (09:27) ARPA-H Programs and Funding (12:42) How To Work with ARPA-H (15:28) The Audacity to Imagine Success (18:59) Improving Research and the Standard of Care (21:40) Women's Health Innovation (26:45) Beyond Conversation: Embracing Data-Driven Solutions Connect with SharonConnect with Sharon on LinkedIn: Sharon KedarLearn more about Innovate and Elevate innovateandelevatepodcast.comSubscribe to Innovate and Elevate on YouTubeJoin the newsletter to receive the latest episodes in your inbox: Innovate and Elevate NewsletterConnect with Dr. Renee WegrzynFollow Renee on LinkedInLearn more on the ARPA-H websiteAdditional ResourcesSubscribe to the ARPA-H Vitals newsletterFull list of ARPA-H programsThe hidden questions behind the Heilmeir QuestionsThe White House Initiative on Women's Health ResearchThis podcast is produced by the women at

The director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) knows the eyes of the nation are on her. Renee Wegrzyn, Ph.D., leads the billion-dollar effort charged with leveraging research advances for real-world impact. Wegrzyn talked with hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter at Aspen Ideas: Health about the agency's initiatives, including a $100 million sprint for women's health and creating tissue-specific delivery of therapies. “How can we pursue some of these breakthroughs — in our case, for health — by empowering the scientists…the program managers…that have these really big ideas that are so risky that the technical sector, the private sector can't address because there's no proof of concept?” She explained the process: Hire program managers with big ideas in health and give them a time frame to find solutions. Wegrzyn said the time limit ensures they bring a sense of urgency to solving problems. In return, participants get resources to focus on technical risks. Many of ARPA-H's missions are cancer-centered, aimed at issues through what-if questions such as: “What if cancer surgeries were one-and-done?” “What if clinical trials evolved in the same way tumors do?” She said, “The investments that we've made in cancer [include] our precision surgical interventions program. Think about reimagining the operating room suites, when a surgeon is looking into a surgical cavity and trying to remove a tumor.”

The director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) knows the eyes of the nation are on her. Renee Wegrzyn, Ph.D., leads the billion-dollar effort charged with leveraging research advances for real-world impact.Wegrzyn talked with hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter at Aspen Ideas: Health about the agency's initiatives, including a $100 million sprint for women's health and creating tissue-specific delivery of therapies.“How can we pursue some of these breakthroughs — in our case, for health — by empowering the scientists…the program managers…that have these really big ideas that are so risky that the technical sector, the private sector can't address because there's no proof of concept?”She explained the process: Hire program managers with big ideas in health and give them a time frame to find solutions.Wegrzyn said the time limit ensures they bring a sense of urgency to solving problems. In return, participants get resources to focus on technical risks.Many of ARPA-H's missions are cancer-centered, aimed at issues through what-if questions such as: “What if cancer surgeries were one-and-done?” “What if clinical trials evolved in the same way tumors do?”She said, “The investments that we've made in cancer [include] our precision surgical interventions program. Think about reimagining the operating room suites, when a surgeon is looking into a surgical cavity and trying to remove a tumor.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of BioTalk, Rich Bendis, President and CEO of BioHealth Innovation, Inc., welcomes guests from ARPA-H: Craig Gravitz, Director of the Project Accelerator Transition Innovation Office (PATIO), and Jenica Patterson, Ph.D., Portfolio Lead at ARPA-H. Together, they provide a comprehensive overview of ARPA-H's mission and innovative programs.   Craig Gravitz and Jenica Patterson share their educational and career backgrounds, setting the stage for a discussion about ARPA-H and its various initiatives. They provide insights into how ARPA-H differentiates itself from other agencies like HHS and NIH, while also highlighting their collaborative efforts.   Listeners will learn about the Project Accelerator Transition Innovation Office (PATIO) and its crucial role within ARPA-H. Jenica Patterson discusses her portfolio, including key areas and projects, and provides details on the new women's sprint for health initiative and its funding tracks.   The conversation highlights examples of ARPA-H investments and milestones achieved, as well as the processes involved in determining future programs and investment priorities. Craig and Jenica also discuss the unique Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) program and how it supports ARPA-H projects.   About Craig Gravitz: Craig Gravitz is designing and implementing the transition and commercial strategy for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).  Prior to joining ARPA-H, Mr. Gravitz launched and ran a research and development program at the Defense Logistics Agency. He is a licensed attorney and has previously serviced as a contracting officer.   About Jenica Patterson, Ph.D.: Jenica Patterson, Ph.D is a Portfolio Lead at ARPA-H within the Project Accelerator Transition Innovation Office (PATIO) and leads the Sprint for Women's Health. Formerly Dr. Patterson served as the Director of the Technology Transfer and Transition (T3X) Division in the PATIO office, where she oversaw public-private partnerships for transition and the small business program for ARPA-H. Dr. Patterson received her Ph.D in Neuroscience at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and served as a Science and Technical Advisor at the Defense Advance Research Project Agency, and a Program Director at NIH prior to joining ARPA-H.   Tune in to BioTalk for an informative discussion with Craig Gravitz and Jenica Patterson as we explore the innovative work of ARPA-H and its impact on health research and development.

Read the full transcript here. What is "apocaloptimism"? Is there a middle ground between apocalypticism and optimism? What are the various camps in the AI safety and ethics debates? What's the difference between "working on AI safety" and "building safe AIs"? Can our social and technological coordination problems be solved only by AI? What is "qualintative" research? What are some social science concepts that can aid in the development of safe and ethical AI? What should we do with things that don't fall neatly into our categories? How might we benefit by shifting our focus from individual intelligence to collective intelligence? What is cognitive diversity? What are "AI Now", "AI Next", and "AI in the Wild"?Adam Russell is the Director of the AI Division at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI). Prior to ISI, Adam was the Chief Scientist at the University of Maryland's Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security, or ARLIS, and was an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland's Department of Psychology. He was the Principal Investigator for standing up the INFER (Integrated Forecasting and Estimates of Risk) forecasting platform. Adam's almost 20-year career in applied research and national security has included serving as a Program Manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), then as a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (where he was known as the DARPAnthropologist) and in May 2022 was appointed as the Acting Deputy Director to help stand up the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Adam has a BA in cultural anthropology from Duke University and a D.Phil. in social anthropology from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has also represented the United States in rugby at the international level, having played for the US national men's rugby team (the Eagles). StaffSpencer Greenberg — Host / DirectorJosh Castle — ProducerRyan Kessler — Audio EngineerUri Bram — FactotumWeAmplify — TranscriptionistsMusicBroke for FreeJosh WoodwardLee RosevereQuiet Music for Tiny Robotswowamusiczapsplat.comAffiliatesClearer ThinkingGuidedTrackMind EasePositlyUpLift[Read more]

Host Robert Traynham is joined by Dr. Bon Ku of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a new federal agency aimed at pioneering ambitious health care initiatives. Dr. Ku will talk about the PARADIGM program, rural health care, and the concept of health care design.

https://youtu.be/jxnYFdY-3P0 This week on the podcast, we discuss a new Microsoft Windows feature that is shaping up to be a security nightmare. Before that, we discuss a new research initiative from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) that could make big improvements in healthcare cybersecurity.

In this installment of Oncology Data Advisor's Exploring Artificial Intelligence in Oncology series, Dr. Waqas Haque, Fellows Forum member and incoming Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the University of Chicago, speaks with Tracey Sikora, Co-Founder of Every Cure, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to repurpose existing FDA-approved drugs for other indications, especially in rare diseases. Check out the discussion to learn more about: • Challenges in finding treatments for rare diseases, including sparse data, low patient numbers, and lack of financial incentive for pharmaceutical companies • Every Cure's mission to unlock the potential of drugs that are already on the market • Harnessing the latest AI and machine learning technology to structure data in a biomedical knowledge graph, looking at drugs, diseases, pathways, and targets • Barriers in drug repurposing, including clinical validation and eventual approval • The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) grant and the importance of federal funding for rare disease research • How to develop efficient clinical trials without a large sample size • The future of AI-enabled drug discovery in oncology • And more!

Dr. Darshak Sanghavi, MD ( https://arpa-h.gov/about/people/darshak-sanghavi ) is Program Manager, Resilient Systems Mission Office, at ARPA-H where he heads up the HEalthcare Rewards to Achieve Improved OutcomES ( HEROES - https://arpa-h.gov/research-and-funding/programs/heroes ) program which aims to trial and validate radically different approaches to creating preventative care incentives in the health market, one example being offering direct payments to individual “health accelerators” – such as non-profits or care consortiums – that successfully implement preventative care campaigns that improve the rates for specific health harms in an entire geographic population. Dr. Sanghavi joined ARPA-H in May 2023 from Babylon – a digital-first, end-to-end health care provider serving more than 24 million people across the globe. As chief medical officer, he was responsible for overseeing the company's international operations as well as leading its wider mission to help bring affordable and accessible health care to everyone worldwide. Previously, Dr. Sanghavi worked as national chief medical officer for UnitedHealthcare and OptumLabs, as a group director at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center during the Obama Administration, as managing director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institute, and as a pediatrician for the U.S. Indian Health Service. Dr. Sanghavi has a doctorate in medicine from Johns Hopkins University and specializes in pediatric cardiology after training at Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Sanghavi is also a best-selling author, with his book "A Map of the Child: A Pediatrician's Tour of the Body", available at all major book sellers, and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Washington Post. Support the show

Dr. Calvin Roberts, M.D. is Program Manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) where manages for the Transplantation of Human Eye Allografts ( THEA - https://arpa-h.gov/research-and-funding/programs/thea ) program, which aims to transplant whole human eyes to restore vision in patients who are blind or visually impaired by reconnecting the nerves, muscles and blood vessels of whole donor eyes to the brain. Dr. Roberts joined ARPA-H in September 2023 from Lighthouse Guild International, where is the president and chief executive officer. Lighthouse Guild is a not-for-profit organization that provides programs and services to people who are blind or visually impaired. Previously, Dr. Roberts was the chief medical officer for the global eye care company Bausch + Lomb. For the past 40 years, Roberts has also served as a clinical professor of ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical Center. As a practicing ophthalmologist from 1982 to 2008, he performed more than 10,000 cataract surgeries, as well as 5,000 refractive and other corneal surgeries. He is credited with developing surgical therapies, over-the-counter products for vision care, prescription ocular therapeutics and innovative treatment regimens. He also holds patents on the wide-field specular microscope and has done extensive research on ophthalmic non-steroidals and post-operative cystoid macular edema. Dr. Roberts also hosts the podcast series “On Tech and Vision” ( https://lighthouseguild.org/technology/on-tech-and-vision-podcast/ ) – where innovators discuss how rapidly evolving assistive technology creates equity among those who are visually impaired. Dr. Roberts received his medical degree from Columbia University, completed an internship and ophthalmology residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and conducted cornea fellowships at Massachusetts Eye and Infirmary and the Schepens Eye Institute. Support the show

Welcome to the daily304 – your window into Wonderful, Almost Heaven, West Virginia.   Today is Friday. Feb. 2  Looking for a good-paying and rewarding job? WV corrections facilities are hiring. Two WV chefs are semifinalists for the prestigious James Beard award. And WVU enters a new research partnership that may spark health innovation…on today's daily304. #1 – From JOBCASE – Explore a stable and rewarding career with the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation. As a correctional officer, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring public safety, upholding public trust and contributing to a higher purpose. You'll be making a real impact on your community.  Higher salaries await you, starting at a minimum of $40,000 annually plus a retention bonus after one year and further salary increases after two years. You'll also receive a great benefits package and paid leave. Additional perks include paid training and plenty of advancement opportunities. What are you waiting for? Visit www.jobcase.com/ru/West-Virginia to find out who's hiring! Read more: https://www.jobcase.com/articles/wv-dcr   #2 – From WCHS-TV – Two chefs from West Virginia have been recognized for culinary excellence with James Beard Award nominations. Chef Paul Smith, of 1010 Bridge in Charleston, has been nominated for best chef of the southeast while Scott MacGregor, from Snowshoe's Appalachian Kitchen, joins the semifinalist list. “It's a huge deal,” said Smith, who was one of five finalists last year. “I wouldn't say it's a dream come true because it's beyond our wildest dreams. This is the Academy Awards for chefs, so just to be nominated you are an Academy Award-winning chef basically." “It was shocking. It was definitely exciting,” MacGregor said. “It was an honor for me to think that I'm in there with people from huge food cities, like Memphis, Nashville, Charleston, South Carolina and all of these places that are kind these up-and-running food cities. I'm here in the middle of the mountains.” Finalists will be announced in March. Read more: https://wchstv.com/news/local/two-wva-chefs-nominated-for-coveted-james-beard-awards-appalachian-kitchen-scott-macgregor-1010-bridge-paul-smith-snowshoe-charleston-culinary-west-virginia   #3 – From WVU TODAY – West Virginia University has been tapped to help accelerate commercialization of medical innovations by collaborating with a nationwide network within the National Institutes of Health. WVU is one of just 127 entities to be named a spokesmember or partner for the Investor Catalyst Hub, a regional hub of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. The University is the only member from West Virginia. ARPA-H's overarching mission is to improve health outcomes through the following research focus areas: health science futures, proactive health, scalable solutions and resilient systems. As a member of the hub, WVU will have access to potential funding and flexible contracting for faster award execution compared to traditional government contracts. “We will be able to tap into a wealth of knowledge and expertise that is represented through the spokes and are excited for the possibilities that will emerge from the ARPA-H partnerships,” said Erienne Olesh, executive director of the Office of Student and Faculty Innovation in the WVU Research Office.   Read more: https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2024/01/29/wvu-selected-to-partner-with-federal-research-entity-to-spark-health-innovation   Find these stories and more at wv.gov/daily304. The daily304 curated news and information is brought to you by the West Virginia Department of Commerce: Sharing the wealth, beauty and opportunity in West Virginia with the world. Follow the daily304 on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @daily304. Or find us online at wv.gov and just click the daily304 logo.  That's all for now. Take care. Be safe. Get outside and enjoy all the opportunity West Virginia has to offer.

A new initiative from Health and Human Services seeks to prevent preventable health problems in under-served communities. The HEROES Program will run through the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). HEROES stands for Health Care Rewards to Achieve Improved Outcomes. To see how it works, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with program manager Dr. Darshak Sanghavi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new initiative from Health and Human Services seeks to prevent preventable health problems in under-served communities. The HEROES Program will run through the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). HEROES stands for Health Care Rewards to Achieve Improved Outcomes. To see how it works, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with program manager Dr. Darshak Sanghavi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Government is typically not one to take risks, but Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) CIO Nikolaos Ipiotis said failing and learning are key parts to tech and health innovation. The agency, the newest one within the National Institutes of Health, aims to transform and innovate in health IT, medicine and other lanes of research that aren't easily available through traditional approaches. Ipiotis, who joined the agency in December 2023, said in his first podcast interview that taking risks, "controlled failure" and collaboration are all keys to his IT strategy. He discusses what lies ahead for data strategy as the agency begins to collaborate with industry and set in motion major initiatives for the health community.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is embracing generative artificial intelligence as part of its internal operations, while also considering how the technology could be used across the broader health ecosystem. Launched in March 2022, ARPA-H is an independent agency within the National Institutes of Health. The organization is modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, with the goal of supporting “transformative research to drive biomedical and health breakthroughs.” Susan Monarez, deputy director at ARPA-H, said officials are already using generative AI technologies to help the new research organization “get our houses in order.” She said the agency processes large volumes of data ranging from personnel information to contracting data to information from partner agencies that help ARPA-H shape its programs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is embracing generative artificial intelligence as part of its internal operations, while also considering how the technology could be used across the broader health ecosystem.Launched in March 2022, ARPA-H is an independent agency within the National Institutes of Health. The organization is modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, with the goal of supporting “transformative research to drive biomedical and health breakthroughs.”Susan Monarez, deputy director at ARPA-H, said officials are already using generative AI technologies to help the new research organization “get our houses in order.” She said the agency processes large volumes of data ranging from personnel information to contracting data to information from partner agencies that help ARPA-H shape its programs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In September 2023, Mathematica and Congressman Don Beyer's office hosted an event on Capitol Hill to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) and its implications for health equity. This episode of On the Evidence features audio from the September event, anchored by Victoria Knight, a health care policy reporter for Axios, who interviewed Congressman Beyer and moderated a subsequent panel with Ellie Graeden, Jen Roberts, Ngan MacDonald, and Deliya Wesley. • Beyer represents the 8th Congressional District of Virginia and is a vice chair of both the bipartisan Congressional AI Caucus and an AI working group recently formed by the New Democrat Coalition. • Graeden is a professor at the Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security. • Roberts is a director of resilient systems at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, also known as ARPA-H. • MacDonald is the chief of data operations for the Institute for AI in Medicine at Northwestern University. • Wesley is a senior director of health equity at Mathematica. Learn more about how Mathematica's experts harness vast data, advanced analytics, and deep health care policy experience to help organizations make sense of real-world data in a way that enables exploration and innovation: https://mathematica.org/sp/data-analytics/real-world-data Find a transcript of the episode at mathematica.org/blogs/how-artificial-intelligence-can-advance-health-equity

Senior writer Frances Stead Sellers speaks with director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), Renee Wegrzyn and executive vice president of Scripps Research, Eric Topol, about how technology and innovation are reshaping cancer care. Conversation recorded on November 8, 2023.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has proceeded with its promised network of health innovation sites. Anchoring the network are three regional hubs also planned at the inception of ARPA-H. For what they hope for the network, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with the Director of the agency's Project Accelerator Transition Innovation office, Craig Gravitz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has proceeded with its promised network of health innovation sites. Anchoring the network are three regional hubs also planned at the inception of ARPA-H. For what they hope for the network, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with the Director of the agency's Project Accelerator Transition Innovation office, Craig Gravitz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lecia Bushak speaks with Jared Adams, chief of engagement and communications for Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), about why the federal government's $2.5 billion health research agency came to HLTH, how it picks investments, and its launch of three U.S. hubs. Follow us: @MMMnewswww.mmm-online.com

Perimeter Medical Imaging AI CEO Adrian Mendes joined Proactive's Stephen Gunnion with news that the company has been shortlisted in a grant funding process sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) as part of its Precision Surgical Interventions (PSI) program. Mendes explained that the initiative aims to provide groundbreaking tools for surgeons to effectively remove cancer in a single operation. Perimeter's technology aligns perfectly with this goal, as they have been working on it for the past decade. Perimeter Medical Imaging AI utilizes a technology called OCT, which has been around for 30 years. However, it has developed wide-field OCT, enabling larger image capture crucial for examining excised tumors. The company's current S series device is already in use in several operating rooms, gathering user feedback. It is also conducting clinical trials for its next-gen B series device, integrating AI technology to enhance surgeon workflow. While the base OCT technology isn't new, the company's innovations and AI integration represent the latest advancements. #ProactiveInvestors #cancersurgery #PerimeterMedicalImaging #AdrianMendes #MedicalInnovations #CancerMoonshot #ARPAH #OCTTechnology #WidefieldOCT #SurgeryInnovations #AIinHealthcare #ClinicalTrials #HealthTech #CancerResearch #MedicalImaging #SurgicalAdvancements #BidenInitiative #HealthcareTechnology #CancerTreatment #InnovationInMedicine #MedicalDevices #SurgeonWorkflow #PrecisionMedicine #PatientCare #SurgicalProcedures #CancerAwareness #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews

Dr. Renee Wegrzyn is the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, (ARPA-H), a new federal agency with a $2.5 billion budget. Modeled after DARPA, the agency is tasked with taking big risks in biomedical research that seem beyond the reach of the private sector. Dr. Wegrzyn joins Preet to discuss how ARPA-H is promoting innovation, and their goal to “end cancer as we know it.”  Stay Tuned is nominated for a Signal Award…and you're in the jury box! Head to cafe.com/signal to vote.  Stay Tuned in Brief is presented by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Please write to us with your thoughts and questions at letters@cafe.com, or leave a voicemail at 669-247-7338. For analysis of recent legal news, join the CAFE Insider community. Head to cafe.com/insider to join for just $1 for the first month.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Imagine a federal procurement shop where you use every technique, except the Federal Acquisition Regulation. And you don't do grants, either. And you've got congressional backing for your novel approach. That's the case for one of the government's newer agencies, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, known as ARPA-H. For a look on the inside, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Diane Sidebottom, ARPA-H Director of Acquisition and Contracts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imagine a federal procurement shop where you use every technique, except the Federal Acquisition Regulation. And you don't do grants, either. And you've got congressional backing for your novel approach. That's the case for one of the government's newer agencies, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, known as ARPA-H. For a look on the inside, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Diane Sidebottom, ARPA-H Director of Acquisition and Contracts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On location at Aspen Ideas-Health, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter talking with the leaders of a new innovation effort. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is backed by $2.5 billion dollars in federal money with a mandate to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone. The initiative aims to work outside of traditions with a “range of performers and a variety of approaches to solve” health care's biggest hurdles. Can they find a way to reduce cancer deaths? That's one of the questions Masselli and Flinter ask Renee Wegrzyn, ARPA-H's director and Amy Jenkins, its director of Health Science Futures. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

From its beginnings in 1958 as the Advanced Research Projects Agency to the eventual folding into the Department of Defense in 1972 under its current acronym, DARPA has always been on the cutting edge of technological advancements in the fields of aerospace, defense, computing, and intelligence gathering. These days DARPA is best known for scary robot dogs and brain implants, but the United States government has big plans for expanding the concept of advanced research with “High-risk, High-reward” expectations into the health industry with the creation of ARPA-H in 2022 to take the medical industry where DARPA took the defense contractors. Prepare to be terrified of where this technology is headed and who ultimately has control over its usage, because the robot dogs of your nightmares are only the beginning. Freeworld NYC 9/11 Live Event Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-world-nyc-tickets-667727369537 American Liberty Awards: www.americanlibertyawards.com Christian Yordanov's Detoxification Program: https://members.christianyordanov.com/detox-workshop?coupon=MACRO Sponsors: Emergency Preparedness Food: www.preparewithmacroaggressions.com Chemical Free Body: https://www.chemicalfreebody.com Promo Code: MACRO C60 Purple Power: https://c60purplepower.com/ Promo Code: MACRO Wise Wolf Gold & Silver: www.Macroaggressions.gold True Hemp Science: https://truehempscience.com/ Haelan: https://haelan951.com/pages/macro Solar Power Lifestyle: https://solarpowerlifestyle.com/ Promo Code: MACRO LegalShield: www.DontGetPushedAround.com EMP Shield: www.EMPShield.com Promo Code: MACRO Coin Bit App: https://coinbitsapp.com/?ref=0SPP0gjuI68PjGU89wUv Macroaggressions Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/macroaggressions?ref_id=22530 LinkTree: linktr.ee/macroaggressions Books: HYPOCRAZY: https://amzn.to/3VsPDp8 Controlled Demolition on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3ufZdzx The Octopus Of Global Control: Amazon: https://amzn.to/3VDWQ5c Barnes & Noble: https://bit.ly/39vdKeQ Online Connection: Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/Macroaggressions Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/macroaggressions_podcast/ Discord Link:  https://discord.gg/4mGzmcFexg Website: www.theoctopusofglobalcontrol.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/theoctopusofglobalcontrol Twitter: www.twitter.com/macroaggressio3 Twitter Handle: @macroaggressio3 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCn3

We're on location at Aspen Ideas-Health, talking with the leaders of a new innovation effort. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is backed by $2.5 billion dollars in federal money with a mandate to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone. The initiative aims to work outside of traditions with a “range of performers and a variety of approaches to solve” health care's biggest hurdles. Can they find a way to reduce cancer deaths? That's one of the questions hosts... Read More Read More The post Have a Way to Beat an Illness?These Federal Experts Need to Hear From You  appeared first on Healthy Communities Online.

We're on location at Aspen Ideas-Health, talking with the leaders of a new innovation effort. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is backed by $2.5 billion dollars in federal money with a mandate to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone. The initiative aims to work outside of traditions with a “range of performers and a variety of approaches to solve” health care's biggest hurdles. Can they find a way to reduce cancer deaths? That's one of the questions hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter ask Renee Wegrzyn, ARPA-H's director and Amy Jenkins, its director of Health Science Futures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're on location at Aspen Ideas-Health, talking with the leaders of a new innovation effort. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is backed by $2.5 billion dollars in federal money with a mandate to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone. The initiative aims to work outside of traditions with a “range of performers and a variety of approaches to solve” health care's biggest hurdles. Can they find a way to reduce cancer deaths? That's one of the questions hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter ask Renee Wegrzyn, ARPA-H's director and Amy Jenkins, its director of Health Science Futures.

Dr. Ross Uhrich, DMD, MBA, is Program Manager, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health ( ARPA-H - https://arpa-h.gov/people/ross-uhrich/ ), which is focused on advancing high-potential, high-impact biomedical and health research that cannot be readily accomplished through traditional research or commercial activity, accelerating better health outcomes targeting society's most challenging health problems. Under the ARPA-H portfolio, Dr. Uhrich is responsible for the recently launched Novel Innovations for Tissue Regeneration in Osteoarthritis ( NITRO - https://arpa-h.gov/engage/programs/nitro/ ) program which seeks to develop new ways of helping the human body repair its own joints, with the goal of revolutionizing treatment for osteoarthritis — a common and often very painful condition where bones and cartilage break down. Dr. Uhrich joined ARPA-H in March 2023 from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, where he worked as a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon and assistant professor of surgery. In addition to these roles, he spent 12 years with the U.S. Navy, finishing his tenure as a Lieutenant Commander. Throughout his career, Dr. Uhrich has cared for thousands of members of the U.S. Armed Forces at various healthcare facilities, including the USS Gerald R. Ford , Naval Health Clinic Quantico, and WRNMMC, and served as an oral and maxillofacial surgery consultant to Congress. He also treated patients at Charleston Area Medical Center, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, and Suburban Hospital. Dr. Uhrich holds a doctorate in dental medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the University of Virginia, and completed his surgical residency at WRNMMC. He also has a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Yale University. Support the show

In today's podcast episode, I talk with Renee Wegrzyn,  appointed by President Biden as the first director of a federal agency created last year called the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H. It's inspired by DARPA, the agency that develops innovations for the Defense department and has been credited with hatching world changing technologies such as ARPANET, which became the internet.Time will tell if ARPA-H will lead to similar achievements in the realm of health. That's what President Biden and Congress expect in return for funding ARPA-H at 2.5 billion dollars over three years. How will the agency figure out which projects to take on, especially with so many patient advocates for different diseases demanding moonshot funding for rapid progress. I talked with Dr. Wegrzyn about the opportunities and challenges, what lessons ARPA-H is borrowing from Operation Warp Speed, how she decided on the first ARPA-H project which was just announced recently, why a separate agency was needed instead of trying to reform HHS and the National Institutes of Health to be better at innovation, and how ARPA-H will make progress on disease prevention in addition to treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes, among many other health priorities.Dr. Wegrzyn's resume is filled with experience for her important role. She was a program manager at DARPA where she focused on applying gene editing and synthetic biology to the goal of improving biosecurity. For her work there, she was given the Superior Public Service Medal and, just in case that wasn't enough ARPA experience, she also worked at another ARPA that leads advanced projects in intelligence, called I-ARPA. Before that, she was in charge of technical teams in the private sector working on gene therapies and disease diagnostics, among other areas. She has been a vice president of business development at Gingko Bioworks and headed innovation at Concentric by Gingko. Her training and education includes a PhD and undergraduate degree in applied biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology and she did her postdoc as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Heidelberg, Germany.As Dr. Wegrzyn told me, she's “in the hot seat” - the pressure is on for ARPA-H especially after the need and potential for health innovation was spot lit by the pandemic and the unprecedented speed of vaccine development. We'll soon find out if ARPA-H can produce something in health that's equivalent to DARPA's creation of the internet.Show links:ARPA-H - https://arpa-h.gov/Dr. Wegrzyn profile - https://arpa-h.gov/people/renee-wegrzyn/Dr. Wegrzyn Twitter - https://twitter.com/rwegrzyn?lang=enPresident Biden Announces Dr. Wegrzyn's appointment - https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/09/12/president-biden-announces-intent-to-appoint-dr-renee-wegrzyn-as-inaugural-director-of-advanced-research-projects-agency-for-health-arpa-h/Leaps.org coverage of ARPA-H - https://leaps.org/arpa/ARPA-H program for joints to heal themselves - https://arpa-h.gov/news/nitro/ - ARPA-H virtual talent search - https://arpa-h.gov/news/aco-talent-search/Leaps.org is a not-for-profit initiative that publishes award-winning journalism, popularizes scientific progress on social media, and hosts events about bioethics and the future of humanity. Visit the platform at www.leaps.org. Podcast host Matt Fuchs is editor-in-chief of Leaps.org.

1. What sparked Director Wang's interests in science and technology and how she got into the energy field 2. How innovation, discoveries, and ideas turn into real world applications 3. Examples of programs that have made the full journey from research and development to the commercial space 4. How ARPA-E encourages innovators and program directors to ponder potential policy and regulatory challenges, as well as some of ARPA-E's goals

Based on AHLA's annual Health Law Connections article, this special series brings together thought leaders from across the health law field to discuss the top ten issues of 2023. In the tenth episode, Tynan Kugler, Principal, PYA, speaks with Rebecca Schaefer, Partner, K&L Gates LLP, about research-related policy initiatives and regulatory changes to watch. They discuss the FDA's September 2022 Noticed of Proposed Rulemaking, Biden Administration initiatives including the Cancer Moonshot and investment in cancer-focused clinical trial networks, the efforts of the newly formed Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, and developments related to Presidential Memo 33 on research security. Sponsored by PYA.Watch the conversation here.To learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community, visit americanhealthlaw.org.

Dr. Renee Wegrzyn, Ph.D. is the inaugural director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health ( ARPA-H - https://arpa-h.gov/ ), an agency that supports the development of high-impact research to drive biomedical and health breakthroughs to deliver transformative, sustainable, and equitable health solutions for everyone. ARPA-H's mission focuses on leveraging research advances for real world impact. Previously, Dr. Wegrzyn served as a vice president of business development at Ginkgo Bioworks and head of Innovation at Concentric by Ginkgo, where she focused on applying synthetic biology to outpace infectious diseases—including Covid-19—through biomanufacturing, vaccine innovation and biosurveillance of pathogens at scale. Prior to Ginkgo, Dr. Wegrzyn was program manager in the Biological Technologies Office at DARPA, where she leveraged the tools of synthetic biology and gene editing to enhance biosecurity, promote public health and support the domestic bioeconomy. Her DARPA portfolio included the Living Foundries: 1000 Molecules, Safe Genes, Preemptive Expression of Protective Alleles and Response Elements and the Detect it with Gene Editing Technologies programs. Dr. Wegrzyn received the Superior Public Service Medal for her work and contributions at DARPA. Prior to joining DARPA, she led technical teams in private industry in the areas of biosecurity, gene therapies, emerging infectious disease, neuromodulation, synthetic biology, as well as research and development teams commercializing multiplex immunoassays and peptide-based disease diagnostics. Dr. Wegrzyn holds doctorate and bachelor's degrees in applied biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was a fellow in the Center for Health Security Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative and completed postdoctoral training as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow in Heidelberg, Germany. Support the show

In this special episode in front of a live audience at the Stanford School of Medicine, Dean Lloyd Minor welcomes Renee Wegrzyn, inaugural director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, known as ARPA-H, within the National Institutes of Health. They explore Renee's vision and roadmap for the new agency, which was established in 2022 with the mission of accelerating high-impact research to drive transformative solutions in health and health care.  Renee outlines the agency's model for rapidly developing groundbreaking innovations and how her experience at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency informs her leadership of ARPA-H. She also discusses the importance of public-private collaborations, leveraging sophisticated technological platforms, and engaging diverse perspectives in advancing breakthroughs to address the most pressing challenges for patients and communities.

Whatever the country's energy future will turn out to be … it will require advances in science and technology. That's where my next guest comes in. The Senate confirmed her late last month as director of the Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency. Introducing Dr. Evelyn Wang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Whatever the country's energy future will turn out to be … it will require advances in science and technology. That's where my next guest comes in. The Senate confirmed her late last month as director of the Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency. Introducing Dr. Evelyn Wang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The growth in skepticism about science that was fueled by disinformation during the pandemic has been a frequent topic on Raise the Line, with many insightful guests from medicine and academia offering analysis of the problem and possible solutions. On today's episode, we'll hear from someone who is very well-placed to actually make progress on this front. Max Bronstein, the Assistant Director for Health Innovation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, joins host Shiv Gaglani to discuss the broad support President Biden has provided for science – elevating his science advisor to the cabinet level being a prime example – and also provide details about programmatic investments that tell the tale at a deeper level. At the top of Bronstein's list of examples is the launch of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, also known as ARPA-H, which aims to drive transformative biomedical and health breakthroughs with a focus on equity. “The mission is about making sure there are cures for diseases, better diagnostic platforms and better technologies out there, but also making sure those are actually available to all Americans.” Don't miss this inside look at new efforts to strengthen the biotechnology workforce, broaden access to clinical genetic sequencing, advance development of treatments for rare diseases, and much more as a new era in health innovation gets underway.  Mentioned in this episode: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/

Reporter Curtis Tate spoke with Halle Cheeseman, program director for the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency, about the type of iron air batteries set to be manufactured in West Virginia and how they're used. The post New Battery Technology Comes To West Virginia And DIY Magazines, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

Reporter Curtis Tate spoke with Halle Cheeseman, program director for the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency, about the type of iron air batteries set to be manufactured in West Virginia and how they're used.

According to the latest data from the HHS' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration annual survey, one in three Americans had a substance abuse disorder or mental illness in 2021. Lauren Gardner talks with Daniel Payne. Plus, Ben Leonard talks with Amy Abernethy, the former No. 2 at the Food and Drug Administration and now president of Verily's clinical research business, about barriers to improving trials, the new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health and more.

Today on the Naturally Inspired Daily Tammy Talks About: Health watch 3 strategies to make a positive impact on your health. The executive order on advancing bio technology and bio manufacturing how will it impact us? Advanced Research Projects Agency for health or Arpah. Rene Wegrzyn and the revolving door of government and industry. Robert Califf who is the head of the FDA. Naturally Inspired Podcast Clip with Jessica Rose. Naturally Inspired Blog post "With a new year comes a lot of new promises" and A feel Good Moment .

After the Soviet Union shocked the United States by successfully launching the first artificial satellite in 1957, President Eisenhower recognized the need to accelerate our nation's research and development capacity, in order to meet the future challenges that the Cold War would bring.  Thus, in 1958, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPA, was born. The agency was later rolled into the Defense Department and re-designated DARPA. Early on, DARPA distinguished itself with a unique, high-risk, high-reward approach - directing funding towards diverse sets of long-shot projects with the understanding that the return on investment would be worth it even if only one or two projects succeeded.  Though DARPA's budget was only a fraction of total DoD spending during the Cold War, the tiny agency has had an outsized impact on creating the technologies that shape our modern world. From GPS to drones to even the internet - the fruits of DARPA's labors surround us.  In the 21st century, a few efforts have been made to adapt DARPA's innovation model outside the defense sector. This saw the created of ARPA-Energy in 2009 and now ARPA-Health in March of this year. What can we learn from the ARPA model, and can it help prepare us for a future where technology will be sorely needed to address the rising global threat of climate change?  To discuss, The Buzz is joined by William Bonvillian, MIT lecturer, author and former senior senate advisor on science and technology policy.Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform to never miss an episode! For more from ACT-IAC, follow us on Twitter @ACTIAC or visit http://www.actiac.org.

Biden via his handlers: "Nice pipeline ya got there. It would be a shame if something happened to it!"As difficult as it might be to believe, the Biden regime - or those behind him, propping him like "Weekend at Bernies," have clearly stated as their goal to facilitate (via executive order and funding) to “write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers.”As pointed out by Joe Allen in his substack article, '[o]ne day after signing his transhuman executive order, the obviously unenhanced Joe Biden announced that Renee Wegryzn will be the inaugural director of the new agency ARPA-H—the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. The agency is slated to receive $1 billion at present, although Biden is pushing for a stunning $6.5 billion."We are being fast-tracked to become largely tranhumanistic and subservient to the globalists (or dead). One big step is via the economy. In this episode, Doug Hagmann provides the details.IMPORTANT LINKS:DONATE: (www.HagmannReport.com/donate)HAGMANN COFFEE & MORE: (www.HagmannStore.com)The Hagmann Report provides news and information based on a combination of exclusive investigative work, proprietary sources, contacts, qualified guests, open-source material. The Hagmann Report will never be encumbered by political correctness or held hostage to an agenda of revisionist history.Join Doug Hagmann, host of the Hagmann Report, Weekdays @ 7 PM ET.ON THE GO? SUBSCRIBE TO HAGMANN'S PODCASTiTunes: (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hagmann-report/id631558915?uo=4)Spotify: (https://open.spotify.com/show/376mkckQHCPYTJssQN794g)iHeart: (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-hagmann-report-30926499/)Spreaker: (https://www.spreaker.com/show/hagmann-report)Email: studio@hagmannreport.comFOLLOW HAGMANN AT:Parler: https://parler.com/DouglasHagmannGab: https://gab.com/DougHagmannGettr: https://gettr.com/user/doughagmannTruth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DougHagmannTwitter: Twitter is garbage

Biden via his handlers: "Nice pipeline ya got there. It would be a shame if something happened to it!"As difficult as it might be to believe, the Biden regime - or those behind him, propping him like "Weekend at Bernies," have clearly stated as their goal to facilitate (via executive order and funding) to “write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers.”As pointed out by Joe Allen in his substack article, '[o]ne day after signing his transhuman executive order, the obviously unenhanced Joe Biden announced that Renee Wegryzn will be the inaugural director of the new agency ARPA-H—the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. The agency is slated to receive $1 billion at present, although Biden is pushing for a stunning $6.5 billion."We are being fast-tracked to become largely tranhumanistic and subservient to the globalists (or dead). One big step is via the economy. In this episode, Doug Hagmann provides the details.IMPORTANT LINKS:DONATE: (www.HagmannReport.com/donate)HAGMANN COFFEE & MORE: (www.HagmannStore.com)The Hagmann Report provides news and information based on a combination of exclusive investigative work, proprietary sources, contacts, qualified guests, open-source material. The Hagmann Report will never be encumbered by political correctness or held hostage to an agenda of revisionist history.Join Doug Hagmann, host of the Hagmann Report, Weekdays @ 7 PM ET.ON THE GO? SUBSCRIBE TO HAGMANN'S PODCASTiTunes: (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hagmann-report/id631558915?uo=4)Spotify: (https://open.spotify.com/show/376mkckQHCPYTJssQN794g)iHeart: (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-hagmann-report-30926499/)Spreaker: (https://www.spreaker.com/show/hagmann-report)Email: studio@hagmannreport.comFOLLOW HAGMANN AT:Parler: https://parler.com/DouglasHagmannGab: https://gab.com/DougHagmannGettr: https://gettr.com/user/doughagmannTruth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DougHagmannTwitter: Twitter is garbage

As difficult as it might be to believe, the Biden regime - or those behind him, propping him like "Weekend at Bernies," have clearly stated as their goal to facilitate (via executive order and funding) to “write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers.”As pointed out by Joe Allen in his substack article, '[o]ne day after signing his transhuman executive order, the obviously unenhanced Joe Biden announced that Renee Wegryzn will be the inaugural director of the new agency ARPA-H—the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. The agency is slated to receive $1 billion at present, although Biden is pushing for a stunning $6.5 billion."We are being fast-tracked to become largely tranhumanistic and subservient to the globalists (or dead). One big step is via the economy. In this episode, Doug Hagmann provides the details.IMPORTANT LINKS:DONATE: (www.HagmannReport.com/donate)HAGMANN COFFEE & MORE: (www.HagmannStore.com)The Hagmann Report provides news and information based on a combination of exclusive investigative work, proprietary sources, contacts, qualified guests, open-source material. The Hagmann Report will never be encumbered by political correctness or held hostage to an agenda of revisionist history.Join Doug Hagmann, host of the Hagmann Report, Weekdays @ 7 PM ET.ON THE GO? SUBSCRIBE TO HAGMANN'S PODCASTiTunes: (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hagmann-report/id631558915?uo=4)Spotify: (https://open.spotify.com/show/376mkckQHCPYTJssQN794g)iHeart: (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-hagmann-report-30926499/)Spreaker: (https://www.spreaker.com/show/hagmann-report)Email: studio@hagmannreport.comFOLLOW HAGMANN AT:Parler: https://parler.com/DouglasHagmannGab: https://gab.com/DougHagmannGettr: https://gettr.com/user/doughagmannTruth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DougHagmannTwitter: Twitter is garbage

As difficult as it might be to believe, the Biden regime - or those behind him, propping him like "Weekend at Bernies," have clearly stated as their goal to facilitate (via executive order and funding) to “write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers.”As pointed out by Joe Allen in his substack article, '[o]ne day after signing his transhuman executive order, the obviously unenhanced Joe Biden announced that Renee Wegryzn will be the inaugural director of the new agency ARPA-H—the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. The agency is slated to receive $1 billion at present, although Biden is pushing for a stunning $6.5 billion."We are being fast-tracked to become largely tranhumanistic and subservient to the globalists (or dead). One big step is via the economy. In this episode, Doug Hagmann provides the details.IMPORTANT LINKS:DONATE: (www.HagmannReport.com/donate)HAGMANN COFFEE & MORE: (www.HagmannStore.com)The Hagmann Report provides news and information based on a combination of exclusive investigative work, proprietary sources, contacts, qualified guests, open-source material. The Hagmann Report will never be encumbered by political correctness or held hostage to an agenda of revisionist history.Join Doug Hagmann, host of the Hagmann Report, Weekdays @ 7 PM ET.ON THE GO? SUBSCRIBE TO HAGMANN'S PODCASTiTunes: (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hagmann-report/id631558915?uo=4)Spotify: (https://open.spotify.com/show/376mkckQHCPYTJssQN794g)iHeart: (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-hagmann-report-30926499/)Spreaker: (https://www.spreaker.com/show/hagmann-report)Email: studio@hagmannreport.comFOLLOW HAGMANN AT:Parler: https://parler.com/DouglasHagmannGab: https://gab.com/DougHagmannGettr: https://gettr.com/user/doughagmannTruth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DougHagmannTwitter: Twitter is garbage

WarRoom Battleground EP 138: The Invasion Of The US Continues; White House Sanctions Transhumanism Tech With Advanced Research Projects Agency For Health

Mission and history of ARPA-E Jennifer Gerbi, acting director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for the Department of Energy (ARPA-E), discusses the process of evaluating and funding high-risk, high-reward energy projects and getting the technologies to market   DoD's civilian harm reduction plan Todd Huntley, director of the National Security Law Program at Georgetown University Law Center and former Judge Advocate General, discusses the Defense Department's new Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan and implementation challenges

Elliott and I discuss some meta topics related to speculative design generally speaking and design fiction, the way its practiced, taught, and received in academic as well as commercial contexts. We also discuss the map he created 'Unresolved Map of Speculative Design' which should not be taken as literal rather as a provocation and conversation starter to discuss (not resolve) the role, relationships, situatedness, and purposes of futures thinking and the futures mindset. This map has been generative some others whose practice operates in the general space of futures design (https://blog.tobiasrevell.com/2020/08/05/box-006-gadget-realism/, https://futurehumanbydesign.com/2019/09/futures-thinking-and-design-thinking/) and recently I found it quite helpful for describing the 'Where' of design fiction in a conversation with a c-level executive who wanted to have a better sense of where it 'fit' alongside other practices within their innovation design teams. I discuss this further in the Issue 32 of the Design Fiction Newsletter. Elliott P. Montgomery is a design researcher, strategist and educator whose work focuses on speculative inquiries at the confluence of social, technological and environmental impact. He is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Design and Management at Parsons School of Design, The New School, teaching in the MFA Transdisciplinary Design Program and across the School of Design Strategies. He is also the co-founder of The Extrapolation Factory, an award winning design-futures research studio based in Brooklyn. He was previously a design research resident at the US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency, Energy as well receiving the Graham Foundation's Individual Grant and The Shed's Open Call commission. He holds a Master's in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London and a Bachelor's in Industrial Design from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

On the latest BioCentury This Week podcast, Washington Editor Steve Usdin details how the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is taking shape as the new U.S. agency seeks to deliver transformative science and the latest moves by Rep. Anna Eshoo to change its structure via legislation. The podcast team also explores the U.K. NHS's deal with Pfizer Inc. and Shionogi & Co. Ltd. on a subscription-based payment pilot for antibiotics, which could serve as an example for other payers considering similar initiatives; why an IP agreement by the WTO will do little to move the needle on COVID countermeasures; and top takeaways from Zai Lab CEO Samantha Du on The BioCentury Show. In addition, they call for members of the biopharma community to participate in a BioCentury survey on the talent crunch facing industry. All responses will remain confidential.

A new DARPA styled agency called Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has been newly created and is the agency behind Biden's stated goal to cure cancer. It is doubtful whether the agency has the fortitude to “cure” cancer at the expense of big pharma, but it will likely do much more than we will ever know. Considering most DARPA projects are black, it is likely ARPA-H projects will be black too. But, this report shares some of what we do know to this point.

A new DARPA styled agency called Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has been newly created and is the agency behind Biden's stated goal to cure cancer. It is doubtful whether the agency has the fortitude to “cure” cancer at the expense of big pharma, but it will likely do much more than we will ever know. Considering most DARPA projects are black, it is likely ARPA-H projects will be black too. But, this report shares some of what we do know to this point. See sources used in this report: ARPA-H, New DARPA Styled Agency created to restructure the National Institute of Health (NIH)   Please help us fight for Freedom of Speech, consider donating @ givesendgo.com/DefendingFreeSpeech Important Proven Solutions to Keep from Getting Sick Even if you Received the mRNA Shot Protect your family and your assets with Silver & Gold - Contact info@milesfranklin.com, tell them "Sarah sent you" and receive excellent service and the lowest prices in the country, guaranteed! MUSIC CREDITS: Intro music by Media Music Group and "Do You Trust Me" by Michael Vignola, licensed for broad internet media use, including video and audio       See video on Bastyon | Bitchute | Rumble | Odysee | Freedom.Social | SarahWestall.tv      

On February 2nd, the White House announced that President Biden reignited the Cancer Moonshot with renewed White House leadership of this effort. In addition, Congress is moving forward with legislation to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Meg Gilley, Amy Kelbick and Sheila Madhani join our breakroom discussion on the road ahead for biomedical research.

Inventing the internet and pioneering satellite navigation, U.S. government agency DARPA has had an illustrious history since being founded by President Eisenhower (as the Advanced Research Projects Agency) on February 7th, 1958. Created in response to the Soviets launching Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite, its mission, which continues to this day, is ‘to prevent technological surprise.'In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly uncover how DARPA helped create the humble computer mouse; explain how former Nazi Wernher von Braun found his way to the head of this supposedly All-American organisation; and look forward to a world of self-sustaining surveillance robots eating us out of house and home…Further Reading:‘Fifty years of DARPA: A surprising history' (New Scientist, 2008): https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13908-fifty-years-of-darpa-a-surprising-history/‘The Nazi Science That Fed the Apollo 11 Moon Landing' (Time, 2019): https://time.com/5627637/nasa-nazi-von-braun/‘3 of the strangest projects DARPA has worked on' (Tech Insider, 2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hSs0S5FVx8For bonus material and to support the show, visit Patreon.com/RetrospectorsWe'll be back tomorrow! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts: podfollow.com/RetrospectorsThe Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill.Theme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Emma Corsham.Copyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2021. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Daniel Herrington is the founder & CEO of Voxel Innovations, a manufacturing company based out of Raleigh, NC. Voxel is a pioneer in pulsed electrochemical machining (PECM), an efficient, accurate and specialized approach to machining high-quality metal components for medical, aerospace, energy and other industries. Before starting his own company, Daniel worked as a professional racecar driver in both the Indy Pro and Grand Am series. He also spent several years with the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) in Washington, D.C. and worked as an independent advanced manufacturing consultant. Before we get started head over to www.3degreescompany.com and subscribe to the podcast. Remember you can listen to the show anywhere you download your podcasts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Stitcher https://www.voxelinnovations.com/education https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-herrington/

The session from the BioHealth Capital Region Forum focuses on a vision for a new science entity, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). This new NIH Institute would accelerate biomedical innovation and adoption of technologies and approaches to revolutionize healthcare and medicine. Tara A. Schwetz, Ph.D. is the Assistant Director for Biomedical Science Initiatives in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). She is currently on detail to OSTP from her role as Associate Deputy Director (ADEPD), National Institutes of Health (NIH). During her tenure as ADEPD, Dr. Schwetz also served as the acting Director of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). Prior to assuming these roles, she was the Chief of the Strategic Planning and Evaluation Branch in the Office of the Director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Dr. Schwetz led several efforts while at NIAID, including conducting an evaluation of the Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance to facilitate evidence-based decision-making and developing the NIAID Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis Research. Previously, Dr. Schwetz served as the Senior Advisor to the Principal Deputy Director of NIH (DEPD), where she coordinated efforts such as Reimagine HHS, the NIH rigor and reproducibility activities, and the first NIH-Wide Strategic Plan. Dr. Schwetz also served in the dual role of the NIH Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Interim Associate Program Director and the Special Assistant to the DEPD. Prior to these roles, she was a Health Science Policy Analyst at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, where she helped develop the National Pain Strategy. Dr. Schwetz started her career at NIH as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at NINR. She received a BS in biochemistry with honors from Florida State University and a PhD in biophysics from the University of South Florida, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University.

Bertrand Might was born with a rare disease that had never before been diagnosed, an odyssey that took four grueling years. He was 12 years old when he died last year — almost a decade older than physicians predicted he would live. This week on the First Opinion Podcast, Bertrand's father, computer scientist Matthew Might, talks about how he used his coding skills to try to extend his son's life, and how daring research projects could save lives across the country and around the world if the Biden administration's proposed Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) comes to life.

Daniel Herrington is founder and CEO of Voxel Innovations, an electrochemical machining company based out of Raleigh, NC. The company specializes in a pulsed electrochemical machine process (or PECM) that is touted as an efficient and accurate approach to machining high-quality metal components for their medical, aerospace, energy and other industry customers. Prior to Voxel Innovations, Daniel consulted in the emergent metal additive manufacturing and electrochemical machining industries after working at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E). While at the agency, Daniel advised teams from universities, national labs, start-ups, and multinational companies on tech-to-market strategies. Daniel was also a professional racecar driver in the IndyCar and Grand-Am series, winning multiple races and raising over $1 million in sponsorships. He secured his master's degree in Engineering Management at Duke University and received his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina State University.

Given what's happened over the last year and a half, the Department of Health and Human Services would have something which the departments of Defense and Energy, as well as the intelligence community have — namely, an advanced research projects agency. Now the Biden administration has proposed just that: a $6.5 billion ARPA Health as part of the National Institutes of Health. With how an ARPA Health might work, Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, starting with the question, isn't the NIH itself a sort of ARPA already?

The internet's fabled history includes such milestones as the Advanced Research Projects Agency's (ARPA) development of packet switching (ARPANET), paving the way for today's modern infrastructure, or Tim Berners-Lee's research that culminated in the explosive adoption of the World Wide Web (WEB) in the 1990s.  Today, as microservices, Kubernetes and distributed environments and connections become more prevalent, the use of the Internet is becoming more decentralized as well.In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of TNS, Storj Labs' Ben Golub, chairman and interim CEO, and Katherine Johnson, head of compliance, discuss how the Internet today centers around decentralization — and more importantly — how decentralization reflects upon the roots of the internet.

The President's recently-released budget presents policy and business questions for every industry within the health sector. To help make sense of the potential impact on the health sector, today's episode of In the Trenches zeroes in on the proposals in the budget related to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).     , former Acting Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources at HHS and , Vice President of , join host to discuss: Presidential budget proposals and federal budgeting during transitions generally HHS programs that may benefit from the proposed spending increase in the budget Business opportunities and timelines related to the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) accelerator initiative at the National Institute of Health Biden campaign promises reflected in the budget, including cancer research and civil rights issues Potential impact of equity policies on government grants and contracts  Treatment of Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and Exchange plans in the budget Jen and Mara's insights into probable year-end actions and impending bills   Additional Resources:    

Some old pieces of the nation's critical infrastructure are too difficult or expensive to replace. But they can be preserved and improved. That's the tack the Energy Department is taking in a program Rapid Encapsulation of Pipelines Avoiding Intensive Replacement, or REPAIR, program. It's out of the Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency. Joining the Federal Drive with details, ARPA-E's REPAIR program director, Dr. Jack Lewnard.

Liebe Leute, es ist Zeit für die Geschichte des Internets und dessen Vorläufer ARPANET. Es ist eine meine Lieblingsgeschichten. Viele Ideen des heutigen Internets haben seinen Ursprung im ARPANET, entwickelt von der ARPA, Advanced Research Projects Agency. Ich erzähle Euch die Geschichte, wie es dazu kam, was die Sowjetunion, die Hippies, die Briten damit zu […] Der Beitrag 18 ARPANET erschien zuerst auf percepticon.

The earliest Unix code, how to replace fail2ban with blacklistd, OpenBSD crossed 400k commits, how to install Bolt CMS on FreeBSD, optimized hammer2, appeasing the OSI 7-layer burrito guys, and more. Headlines The Earliest Unix Code: An Anniversary Source Code Release (https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-earliest-unix-code-an-anniversary-source-code-release/) What is it that runs the servers that hold our online world, be it the web or the cloud? What enables the mobile apps that are at the center of increasingly on-demand lives in the developed world and of mobile banking and messaging in the developing world? The answer is the operating system Unix and its many descendants: Linux, Android, BSD Unix, MacOS, iOS—the list goes on and on. Want to glimpse the Unix in your Mac? Open a Terminal window and enter “man roff” to view the Unix manual entry for an early text formatting program that lives within your operating system. 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the start of Unix. In the summer of 1969, that same summer that saw humankind’s first steps on the surface of the Moon, computer scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories—most centrally Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie—began the construction of a new operating system, using a then-aging DEC PDP-7 computer at the labs. This man sent the first online message 50 years ago (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-oct-29-2019-1.5339212/this-man-sent-the-first-online-message-50-years-ago-he-s-since-seen-the-web-s-dark-side-emerge-1.5339244) As many of you have heard in the past, the first online message ever sent between two computers was "lo", just over 50 years ago, on Oct. 29, 1969. It was supposed to say "log," but the computer sending the message — based at UCLA — crashed before the letter "g" was typed. A computer at Stanford 560 kilometres away was supposed to fill in the remaining characters "in," as in "log in." The CBC Radio show, “The Current” has a half-hour interview with the man who sent that message, Leonard Kleinrock, distinguished professor of computer science at UCLA "The idea of the network was you could sit at one computer, log on through the network to a remote computer and use its services there," 50 years later, the internet has become so ubiquitous that it has almost been rendered invisible. There's hardly an aspect in our daily lives that hasn't been touched and transformed by it. Q: Take us back to that day 50 years ago. Did you have the sense that this was going to be something you'd be talking about a half a century later? A: Well, yes and no. Four months before that message was sent, there was a press release that came out of UCLA in which it quotes me as describing what my vision for this network would become. Basically what it said is that this network would be always on, always available. Anybody with any device could get on at anytime from any location, and it would be invisible. Well, what I missed ... was that this is going to become a social network. People talking to people. Not computers talking to computers, but [the] human element. Q: Can you briefly explain what you were working on in that lab? Why were you trying to get computers to actually talk to one another? A: As an MIT graduate student, years before, I recognized I was surrounded by computers and I realized there was no effective [or efficient] way for them to communicate. I did my dissertation, my research, on establishing a mathematical theory of how these networks would work. But there was no such network existing. AT&T said it won't work and, even if it does, we want nothing to do with it. So I had to wait around for years until the Advanced Research Projects Agency within the Department of Defence decided they needed a network to connect together the computer scientists they were supervising and supporting. Q: For all the promise of the internet, it has also developed some dark sides that I'm guessing pioneers like yourselves never anticipated. A: We did not. I knew everybody on the internet at that time, and they were all well-behaved and they all believed in an open, shared free network. So we did not put in any security controls. When the first spam email occurred, we began to see the dark side emerge as this network reached nefarious people sitting in basements with a high-speed connection, reaching out to millions of people instantaneously, at no cost in time or money, anonymously until all sorts of unpleasant events occurred, which we called the dark side. But in those early days, I considered the network to be going through its teenage years. Hacking to spam, annoying kinds of effects. I thought that one day this network would mature and grow up. Well, in fact, it took a turn for the worse when nation states, organized crime and extremists came in and began to abuse the network in severe ways. Q: Is there any part of you that regrets giving birth to this? A: Absolutely not. The greater good is much more important. News Roundup How to use blacklistd(8) with NPF as a fail2ban replacement (https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/63-how-to-use-blacklistd8-with-npf-as-a-fail2ban-replacement) blacklistd(8) provides an API that can be used by network daemons to communicate with a packet filter via a daemon to enforce opening and closing ports dynamically based on policy. The interface to the packet filter is in /libexec/blacklistd-helper (this is currently designed for npf) and the configuration file (inspired from inetd.conf) is in etc/blacklistd.conf Now, blacklistd(8) will require bpfjit(4) (Just-In-Time compiler for Berkeley Packet Filter) in order to properly work, in addition to, naturally, npf(7) as frontend and syslogd(8), as a backend to print diagnostic messages. Also remember npf shall rely on the npflog* virtual network interface to provide logging for tcpdump() to use. Unfortunately (dont' ask me why ??) in 8.1 all the required kernel components are still not compiled by default in the GENERIC kernel (though they are in HEAD), and are rather provided as modules. Enabling NPF and blacklistd services would normally result in them being automatically loaded as root, but predictably on securelevel=1 this is not going to happen. FreeBSD’s handbook chapter on blacklistd (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-blacklistd.html) OpenBSD crossed 400,000 commits (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=157059352620659&w=2) Sometime in the last week OpenBSD crossed 400,000 commits (*) upon all our repositories since starting at 1995/10/18 08:37:01 Canada/Mountain. That's a lot of commits by a lot of amazing people. (*) by one measure. Since the repository is so large and old, there are a variety of quirks including ChangeLog missing entries and branches not convertible to other repo forms, so measuring is hard. If you think you've got a great way of measuring, don't be so sure of yourself -- you may have overcounted or undercounted. Subject to the notes Theo made about under and over counting, FreeBSD should hit 1 million commits (base + ports + docs) some time in 2020 NetBSD + pkgsrc are approaching 600,000, but of course pkgsrc covers other operating systems too How to Install Bolt CMS with Nginx and Let's Encrypt on FreeBSD 12 (https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-bolt-cms-nginx-ssl-on-freebsd-12/) Bolt is a sophisticated, lightweight and simple CMS built with PHP. It is released under the open-source MIT-license and source code is hosted as a public repository on Github. A bolt is a tool for Content Management, which strives to be as simple and straightforward as possible. It is quick to set up, easy to configure, uses elegant templates. Bolt is created using modern open-source libraries and is best suited to build sites in HTML5 with modern markup. In this tutorial, we will go through the Bolt CMS installation on FreeBSD 12 system by using Nginx as a web server, MySQL as a database server, and optionally you can secure the transport layer by using acme.sh client and Let's Encrypt certificate authority to add SSL support. Requirements The system requirements for Bolt are modest, and it should run on any fairly modern web server: PHP version 5.5.9 or higher with the following common PHP extensions: pdo, mysqlnd, pgsql, openssl, curl, gd, intl, json, mbstring, opcache, posix, xml, fileinfo, exif, zip. Access to SQLite (which comes bundled with PHP), or MySQL or PostgreSQL. Apache with mod_rewrite enabled (.htaccess files) or Nginx (virtual host configuration covered below). A minimum of 32MB of memory allocated to PHP. hammer2 - Optimize hammer2 support threads and dispatch (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2019-September/719632.html) Refactor the XOP groups in order to be able to queue strategy calls, whenever possible, to the same CPU as the issuer. This optimizes several cases and reduces unnecessary IPI traffic between cores. The next best thing to do would be to not queue certain XOPs to an H2 support thread at all, but I would like to keep the threads intact for later clustering work. The best scaling case for this is when one has a large number of user threads doing I/O. One instance of a single-threaded program on an otherwise idle machine might see a slightly reduction in performance but at the same time we completely avoid unnecessarily spamming all cores in the system on the behalf of a single program, so overhead is also significantly lower. This will tend to increase the number of H2 support threads since we need a certain degree of multiplication for domain separation. This should significantly increase I/O performance for multi-threaded workloads. You know, we might as well just run every network service over HTTPS/2 and build another six layers on top of that to appease the OSI 7-layer burrito guys (http://boston.conman.org/2019/10/17.1) I've seen the writing on the wall, and while for now you can configure Firefox not to use DoH, I'm not confident enough to think it will remain that way. To that end, I've finally set up my own DoH server for use at Chez Boca. It only involved setting up my own CA to generate the appropriate certificates, install my CA certificate into Firefox, configure Apache to run over HTTP/2 (THANK YOU SO VERY XXXXX­XX MUCH GOOGLE FOR SHOVING THIS HTTP/2 XXXXX­XXX DOWN OUR THROATS!—no, I'm not bitter) and write a 150 line script that just queries my own local DNS, because, you know, it's more XXXXX­XX secure or some XXXXX­XXX reason like that. Sigh. Beastie Bits An Oral History of Unix (https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/unixhistory) NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack [pdf] (https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2019.pdf) EuroBSDCon 2019 videos available (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLskKNopggjc6NssLc8GEGSiFYJLYdlTQx) Barbie knows best (https://twitter.com/eksffa/status/1188638425567682560) For the #OpenBSD #e2k19 attendees. I did a pre visit today. (https://twitter.com/bob_beck/status/1188226661684301824) Drawer Find (https://twitter.com/pasha_sh/status/1187877745499561985) Slides - Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD - AsiaBSDCon 2019 (https://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2019-rop-slides.pdf) Feedback/Questions Bostjan - Open source doesn't mean secure (http://dpaste.com/1M5MVCX#wrap) Malcolm - Allan is Correct. (http://dpaste.com/2RFNR94) Michael - FreeNAS inside a Jail (http://dpaste.com/28YW3BB#wrap) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Your browser does not support the HTML5 video tag.

Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because understanding the past prepares us for the innovations of the future! Todays episode is on the History of Symantec. This is really more part one of a part two series. Broadcom announced they were acquiring Symantec in August of 2019, the day before we recorded this episode. Who is this Symantec and what do they do - and why does Broadcom want to buy them for 10.7 Billion dollars? For starters, by themselves Symantec is a Fortune 500 company with over $4 billion dollars in annual revenues so $10.7 Billion is a steal for an enterprise software company. Except they're just selling the Enterprise software division and keeping Norton in the family. With just shy of 12,000 employees, Symantec has twisted and turned and bought and sold companies for a long time. But how did they become a Fortune 500 company? It all started with Eisenhower. ARPA or the Advanced Research Projects Agency, which would later add the word Defense to their name, become DARPA and build a series of tubes call the interweb. While originally commissioned so Ike could counter Sputnik, ARPA continued working to fund projects in computers and in the 1970s, this kid out of the University of Texas named Gary Hendrix saw that they were funding natural language understanding projects. This went back to Turing and DARPA wanted to give some AI-complete a leap forward, trying to make computers as intelligent as people. This was obviously before Terminator told us that was a bad idea (pro-tip, it's a good idea). Our intrepid hero Gary saw that sweet, sweet grant money and got his PhD from the UT Austin Computational Linguistics Lab. He wrote some papers on robotics and the Stanford Research Institute, or SRI for short. Yes, that's the same SRI that invented the hosts.txt file and is responsible for keeping DNS for the first decade or so of the internet. So our pal Hendrix joins SRI and chases that grant money, leaving SRI in 1980 with about 15 other Stanford researchers to start a company they called Machine Intelligence Corporation. That went bust and so he started Symantec Corporation in 1982 got a grant from the National Science foundation to build natural language processing software; it turns out syntax and semantics make for a pretty good mashup. So the new company Symantec built out a database and some advanced natural language code, but by 1984 the PC revolution was on and that code had been built for a DEC PDP so could not be run on the emerging PCs in the industry. Symantec was then acquired by C&E Software short for the names of its founders, Dennis Coleman and Gordon Eubanks. The Symantec name stayed and Eubanks became the chairman of the board for the new company. C&E had been working on PC software called Q&A, which the new team finished and then added natural language processing to make using the tools easier to use. They called that “The Intelligent Assistant” and they now had a tool that would take them through the 80s. People swapped rolls, and due to a sharp focus on sales they did well. During the early days of the PC, dealers - or small computer stores that were popping up all over the country, were critical to selling hardware and software. Every Symantec employee would go on the road for six days a week, visiting 6 dealers a day. It was grueling but kept them growing and building. They became what we now call a “portfolio” company in 1985 when they introduced NoteIt, a natural language processing tool used to annotate docs in Lotus 1-2-3. Lotus was in the midst of eating the lunch of previous tools. They added another devision and made SQZ a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet tool. This is important, they were a 3 product company with divisions when in 1987 they got even more aggressive and purchased Breakthrough Software who made an early project management tool called TimeLine. And this is when they did something unique for a PC software company: they split each product into groups that leveraged a shared pool of resources. Each product had a GM that was responsible for the P&L. The GM ran the development, Quality Assurance, Tech Support, and Product Market - those teams reported directly to the GM, who reported to then CEO Eubanks. But there was a shared sales, finance, and operations team. This laid the framework for massive growth, increased sales, and took Symantec to their IPO in 1989. Symantec purchased what was at the time the most popular CRM app called ACT! In 1993 Meanwhile, Peter Norton had a great suite of tools for working with DOS. Things that, well, maybe should have been built into operating systems (and mostly now are). Norton could compress files, do file recovery, etc. The cash Symantec raised allowed them to acquire The Peter Norton Company in 1999 which would completely change the face of the company. This gave them development tools for PC and Mac as Norton had been building those. This lead to the introduction of Symantec Antivirus for the Macintosh and called the anti-virus for PC Norton Antivirus because people already trusted that name. Within two years, with the added sales and marketing air cover that the Symantec sales machine provided, the Norton group was responsible for 82% of Symantecs total revenues. So much so that Symantec dropped building Q&A because Microsoft was winning in their market. I remember this moment pretty poignantly. Sure, there were other apps for the Mac like Virex, and other apps for Windows, like McAfee. But the Norton tools were the gold standard. At least until they later got bloated. The next decade was fast, from the outside looking in, except when Symantec acquired Veritas in 2004. This made sense as Symantec had become a solid player in the security space and before the cloud, backup seemed somewhat related. I'd used Backup Exec for a long time and watched Veritas products go from awesome to, well, not as awesome. John Thompson was the CEO through that decade and Symantec grew rapidly - purchasing systems management solution Altiris in 2007 and got a Data Loss Prevention solution that year in Vontu. Application Performance Management, or APM wasn't very security focused so that business until was picked up by Vector Capital in 2008. They also picked up MessageLabs and AppStream in 2008. Enrique Salem replaced Thompson and Symantec bought Versign's CA business in 2010. If you remember from our encryption episode, that was already spun off of RSA. Certificates are security-focused. Email encryption tool PGP and GuardianEdge were also picked up in 2010 providing key management tools for all those, um, keys the CA was issuing. These tools were never integrated properly though. They also picked up Rulespace in 2010 to get what's now their content filtering solution. Symantec acquired LiveOffice in 2012 to get enterprise vault and instant messaging security - continuing to solidify the line of security products. They also acquired Odyssey Software for SCCM plugins to get better at managing embedded, mobile, and rugged devices. Then came Nukona to get a MAM product, also in 2012. During this time, Steve Bennett was hired as CEO and fired in 2014. Then Michael Brown, although in the interim Veritas was demerged in 2014 and as their products started getting better they were sold to The Carlyle Group in 2016 for $8B. Then Greg Clark became CEO in 2016, when Symantec purchased Blue Coat. Greg Clark then orchestrated the LifeLock acquisition for $2.3B of that $8B. Thoma Bravo then bought CA business to merge with DigiCert in 2017. Then in 2019 Rick Hill became CEO. Does this seem like a lot of buying and selling? It is. But it also isn't. If you look at what Symantec has done, they have a lot of things they can sell customers for various needs in the information security space. At times, they've felt like a holding company. But ever since the Norton acquisition, they've had very specific moves that continue to solidify them as one of the top security vendors in the space. Their sales teams don't spend six days a week on the road and go to six customers a day, but they have a sales machine. And the've managed to leverage that to get inside what we call the buying tornado of many emergent technologies and then sell the company before the tornado ends. They still have Norton, of course. Even though practically every other product in the portfolio has come and gone over the years. What does all of this mean? The Broadcom acquisition of the enterprise security division maybe tells us that Symantec is about to leverage that $10+ billion dollars to buy more software companies. And sell more companies after a little integration and incubation, then getting out of it before the ocean gets too red, the tech too stale, or before Microsoft sherlocks them. Because that's what they do. And they do it profitably every single time. We often think of how an acquiring company gets a new product - but next time you see a company buying another one, think about this: that company probably had multiple offers. What did the team at the company being acquired get out of this deal? And we'll work on that in the next episode, when we explore the history of Broadcom. Thank you for sticking with us through this episode of the History of Computing Podcast and have a great day!

Former Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Scott Swift talks about the nature of strategic competition between the U.S. and China and the grand strategies they may be employing. This competition is less about global leadership and more about how the rules that govern that leadership are being challenged and modified. The annual IGCC Herb York Lecture honors the memory of the distinguished nuclear physicist. York was the founding chancellor of UC San Diego, first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, first chief scientist of the Advanced Research Projects Agency and founding director of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Series: "Herb York Memorial Lecture" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 34359]

Former Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Scott Swift talks about the nature of strategic competition between the U.S. and China and the grand strategies they may be employing. This competition is less about global leadership and more about how the rules that govern that leadership are being challenged and modified. The annual IGCC Herb York Lecture honors the memory of the distinguished nuclear physicist. York was the founding chancellor of UC San Diego, first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, first chief scientist of the Advanced Research Projects Agency and founding director of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Series: "Herb York Memorial Lecture" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 34359]

Was the Internet designed to withstand a nuclear attack? Common story. Is it true? Rohit and Penelope Othmar explore the origins of the Internet when they review the book Imagineers of War by Sharon Weinberger, a book that discusses the history of ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency.    The answer is not as straightforward … Continue reading We Read It So You Don’t Have To: Internet as Defense Technology →