Restorative & health-Enhancing Sleep Time (REST) Proposers’ Day Announcement
This is a Proposers’ Day notice for ARPA-H’s REST program and does not itself fund awards; any later REST funding would target proposals to improve restorative sleep health under ARPA-H.
⚑ Special Notice / Proposers’ Day only; not a funding opportunity itself · Eligibility language refers to federal contract context and does not specify applicant classes in this notice · ARPA-H programs often use milestone-driven, non-traditional agreements; check future solicitation for actual eligibility and submission rules
This is a biomedical/clinical sleep-health opportunity, which is outside IPPRA’s usual social-behavioral focus on climate, hazards, energy, and risk communication. None of the listed researchers has a substantive program in sleep medicine or ARPA-H-style health intervention development, so this would not plausibly be a PI-level fit.
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Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 46 partial | portfolio topic: public_health (primary); social/behavioral work is minor; funds other — not a research fit; eligibility unclear — verify in the NOFO; biomedical core — IPPRA health lane is communication/crisis/policy (capped); clinical-trial/biomedical core — IPPRA angle is policy/community (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 30 weak | prototyping/demonstration stage; deep-tech content |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 10 none | technical depth: minor; funds other (capped) |
Description
This Special Notice (SN) is intended to notify the proposer community of a Proposers’ Day (PD) associated with the Restorative & health-Enhancing Sleep Time (REST) program under the Proactive Health Office (PHO) of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). 6/16: Amendment 1 updates links within the SN
Eligibility
Applicant restrictions (federal contract). Set-aside: No Set aside used. Notice type: Special Notice. Organization: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF / NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH / ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY FOR HEALTH (ARPA-H).
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