Media & Resources

Press Coverage & Resources

News, announcements, videos, and resources from the BREATHE and PRO-MICROBE research programs.

Videos

See the technology

SCALE · An Immune System for Every Building

A molecular-level guide to real-time airborne organism detection. Poppy Health / SCALE program.

BRAVE · Bioaerosol Risk Assessment interVention Engineering

Virginia Tech's BRAVE program for protecting children in daycare environments.

HAIQU · Hospital Air Quality System

Mayo Clinic's AI-powered biosensor platform for detecting and responding to airborne pathogens in hospital environments.

R-TRAC · Respiratory Threat Real-Time Assessment Control

Technology to give war fighters, their families, and frontline health care workers the safest environment of care possible.

Press Coverage

In the news

BREATHE Jun 2026

Buildings May Soon Have 'Immune' Systems that Fight Airborne Disease

The New York Times · Science
BREATHE Jun 2026

ARPA-H Honored for Driving Breakthrough Innovation in Healthy Indoor Air

CSRwire · AAFA / IFMA / IWBI Leadership in Innovation Award
R-TRAC 2025

Seeing Through the Molecular Curtain

Hoover Institution
BRAVE Mar 2026

Podcast: Airborne Pathogen Detection and Mitigation with Linsey Marr

VT Research · Curious Conversations
PRO-MICROBE 2025

Microbes: The Invisible Inhabitants

Yale Engineering Magazine
Official Program Pages

ARPA-H program pages

ARPA-H

BREATHE Program Overview

Official ARPA-H overview of the full BREATHE program and all four teams

ARPA-H · SCALE

SCALE Award Page — Poppy Health

Strategic Control of Bioaerosols in Learning Environments · Schools

ARPA-H · BRAVE

BRAVE Award Page — Virginia Tech

Bioaerosol Risk Assessment interVention Engineering · Daycares

ARPA-H · HAIQU

HAIQU Award Page — Mayo Clinic

Hospital Air QUality: Breathing Life into Patient Care · Hospitals

ARPA-H · R-TRAC

R-TRAC Award Page — SafeTraces

Respiratory Threat Real-time Assessment and Control · Defense Health

ARPA-H · PRO-MICROBE

PRO-MICROBE Award Page — Yale University

Healthy Building Microbiome Index · Homes

Press inquiries

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