Intelligent Generator of Research (IGoR)
ARPA-H’s IGoR program funds the creation of an AI-enabled research ecosystem to accelerate and automate biomedical discovery, aiming for breakthroughs in complex disease research.
Funder: Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health
Due Dates: June 25, 2026 (Solution Summary) | August 6, 2026 (Full Proposal)
Funding Amounts: Multi-year, large-scale awards; specific amounts not published—budgets should be appropriate to ambitious, multi-disciplinary efforts.
Summary: Supports AI-driven, collaborative biomedical research ecosystems to accelerate hypothesis generation, experimentation, and discovery.
Key Information: Solution Summary required before full proposal; only encouraged applicants should submit a full proposal.
Description
The Intelligent Generator of Research (IGoR) program, funded by ARPA-H, aims to transform biomedical research by building a nimble, interoperable, AI-enabled research ecosystem. The program targets longstanding inefficiencies in traditional biomedical research, such as siloed data, slow iteration, and limited reproducibility. IGoR will support the development of advanced mechanistic disease models, an AI orchestration layer for experiment design, standardized protocol architectures, and a distributed marketplace of validated laboratories. The overarching goal is to enable researchers to generate validated biological knowledge at least ten times faster than conventional approaches, accelerating breakthroughs for complex diseases.
