REST (Restorative & health-Enhancing Sleep Time)
The ARPA-H REST program funds research to develop at-home sleep measurement technologies and real-time, personalized interventions to improve sleep and health outcomes.
Funder: Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health
Due Dates: August 12, 2026: Solution Summary due (required to submit a full proposal)
Funding Amounts: Funding details not published; ARPA-H programs typically support multi-year, multi-million dollar research efforts.
Summary: Supports development of technologies for accurate, at-home sleep measurement and real-time, personalized interventions to improve health outcomes.
Key Information: Solution Summary submission is mandatory to be considered for a full proposal invitation.
Description
The REST (Restorative & health-Enhancing Sleep Time) program, funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), seeks to transform sleep from a poorly understood behavior into a measurable and controllable biological system. The program aims to advance two core technical areas:
- Accurate, at-home measurement and diagnosis of sleep quality with clinical fidelity.
- Real-time, non-invasive, closed-loop interventions that personalize and improve sleep quality throughout the night.
REST will bring together interdisciplinary teams to identify the physiological features of sleep that predict health outcomes, enable meaningful sleep assessment in home environments, and develop adaptive technologies to optimize sleep based on health metrics. The ultimate goal is to redefine sleep quality using health outcomes as the ground truth and foster the development of objective, personalized sleep health technologies.
