Revolutionize the way we prevent, detect, and respond to major 21st century health security threats.

EZ-BAA now open for COVID-19 medical countermeasures Abstracts

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Barda Industry Day 2021

Join us for sessions to hear the latest from DRIVe staff and our partners in the Solving Sepsis, ENACT, and DRIVe Accelerator network. Bring your bold ideas to advance health security today and tomorrow.


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BARDA DRIVe Launches First Venture Capital Partnership

BARDA DRIVe Launches First Venture Capital Partnership to Develop Transformative Technologies to Combat Future Pandemics, Other Health Emergencies

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Pediatric COVID-19 Data Challenge

You can help develop computational models to predict children at risk for severe COVID-19 complications

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Learn about DRIVe’s newest Funding Opportunity

Next Generation Sequencing-based Agnostic Diagnostic

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Mitigating Long-term Effects (MILE) of Respiratory Distress is now open for abstract submissions

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BARDA Evolves ENACT Into Two New Programs

EZ-BAA is now open

CURRENT PROGRAMS

Our individual DRIVe programs accelerate the development and availability of transformative technologies and approaches to protect Americans from health security threats. We push the boundaries of innovation to tackle the biggest health security challenges.

ENACT

Provide health information to individuals at early stages of infection, injury, or illness.

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ImmuneChip+

Enhance the usability of 3D human tissue models (“tissue chips”) as tools for drug development.

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COVID-19 Response

Use pathogen-agnostic technologies from the ENACT and Solving Sepsis portfolios in response to COVID-19.

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Beyond The Needle

Develop alternative delivery methods for vaccines and other therapeutics.

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ReDIRECT

Repurpose commonly available therapeutics to treat symptoms associated with chemical agent exposure.

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Solving Sepsis

Seek interventions to identify sepsis early resulting in improved patient outcomes and decreased mortality.

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Digital Health Tools for Pandemic Preparedness

First line of defense against health threats with rapidly deployable digital tools​​.

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Bringing Laboratory Testing to the Home

Enabling better health outcomes through biological sample testing at the point-of-care.

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Covid-19 At Home Diagnostics

Home-based, over the counter diagnostics and enabling technologies for the detection of SARS CoV-2.

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UPCOMING DRIVe EVENTS

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DRIVe's Impact

  • We change how government approaches big health security challenges and threats
  • We tackle health security threats by seeking breakthrough devices and technologies
  • We model our work on the best practices of the entrepreneurial world.
  • We use tools and authorities to support new technologies, streamline contracting processes, and launch a network of accelerators
  • The team is comprised of scientists and venture entrepreneurs dedicated to identifying threats to health security


Investing Process