Description
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is seeking proposals for the Technology InteGrator and AcceleratoR (TIGAR) program, which aims to develop innovative solutions for stabilizing regenerative tissues and organs. The program will support two intake groups, with submission deadlines in August 2026 and December 2026. Proposers are encouraged to submit solution videos and full proposals, which will be evaluated based on scientific and technical merit, proposer capabilities, and relevance to the ARPA-H mission. The total funding requested must not exceed $2 million over the 18-month period of performance.
• The TIGAR program will focus on developing enabling technologies for temperature-flexible storage of complex biologics.
• Proposers must demonstrate progress towards functional preservation of entire structures or tissue volumes for at least 30 days at practical temperatures.
• The program will support research in areas such as new materials, artificial intelligence/machine learning, high-throughput screening methods, biological interventions, devices, processing methods, analytical technology, and packaging approaches.
• Proposers must provide a clear and testable biopreservation concept, including a logical experimental design and justification to support the proposed concept.
• The evaluation criteria will include overall scientific and technical merit, proposer capabilities, contribution to the ARPA-H mission, and assessment of proposed cost/price.