ARPA-H Genetic Medicines and Individualized Manufacturing for Everyone (GIVE)

GIVE is aimed at creating distributed biomanufacturing and quality control platforms for genetic medicines and cell therapies to enable onsite production and access. Projects should focus on overcoming key challenges to manufacturing genetic medicines including manufacturing costs, the reliance on a discrete subset of locations that provide unique centralized equipment, resource intensive quality control systems, and the need for ultracold storage and shipping of finished products. Through this program, ARPA-H aims to bolster U.S. biomanufacturing technology to ensure personalized and individualized genetic medicines are made domestically, improving patient access to cancer therapies, cell therapies, and gene editing technologies. Applicants should ensure strong expertise in automation, device integration, and quality systems to compete in this infrastructure-oriented space. 

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