“The Department of Health and Human Services wants to give more money to more accelerators to help deter critical national security health threats.”
“The Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures, or DRIVe, launched a partnership with eight accelerators across the country last year to find entrepreneurs and innovators to solve critical health challenges. Now, HHS wants to increase the number of accelerators it works with, opening applications to receive government funding to join the program, it said in a release.”
“Accelerators offer entrepreneurs guidance and technical support as they develop what HHS hopes will be solutions for national security health threats. The government dollars are distributed to accelerators, which in turn pass down the support to innovators.”
“HHS is seeking technology to detect illness earlier, solve diseases that stem from infections and “other disruptive technologies,” according to the release…” Read the full article here.
Source: HHS seeks accelerators to build ‘disruptive’ tech for national security – By Jackson Barnett, May 31, 2019. FedScoop.
