Article Excerpt: Dartmouth Engineering will lead one of the first eight teams announced today by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to receive an award through its Precision Surgical Interventions (PSI) program. An agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), ARPA-H is committing up to $31.3 million over seven years to the Dartmouth-led team to create a laparoscope-integrating imaging solution that will be especially helpful in prostate cancer surgeries.
The ARPA-H announcement builds on President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden’s “Cancer Moonshot” with the goals of reducing the cancer death rate in the US by at least half—preventing more than 4 million cancer deaths—by 2047, and improving the experience of people who are touched by cancer.
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Article Source: Dartmouth Engineering News