$150 Million from ARPA-H to Support Innovative Surgeries

U.S. President Joe Biden announced that up to $150 million will be awarded to eight teams to develop innovative surgical technologies to make the removal of solid tumors more successful—by reducing the need for repeat operations and decreasing damage to nearby heathy tissue. The money, which will come from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) will support teams from Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH); Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD); Rice University (Houston, TX); Tulane University (New Orleans, LA); the University of California, San Francisco; the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; the University of Washington (Seattle, WA); and Cision Vision (Mountain View, CA). According to the announcement from the White House, “these projects are working to improve key aspects of the surgical experience from improving surgeons’ ability to visualize important structures like blood vessels and nerves throughout surgery, to developing next-generation microscopes and imaging technology that help them remove all cancerous cells in one surgery.”