ARPA-H envisions faster rare disease diagnosis with AI

Issuing four new awards for up to nearly $83 million, ARPA-H aims to fund researchers tapping into AI to accelerate the creation of large datasets and AI tools for rare diseases to enable earlier diagnosis for patients and advance therapeutic development.

In December 2024, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) announced the initiation of The Rare Disease AI/ML for Precision Integrated Diagnostics (RAPID) program, with a commitment to invest up to $98.5 million over 4.5 years to develop AI-driven diagnostic tools and the large-scale datasets underlying them...