The Defense Science Office (DSO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) identifies and pursues high-risk, high-payoff research initiatives across a broad spectrum of science and engineering disciplines—sometimes reshaping existing fields or creating entirely new disciplines—and transforms these initiatives into radically new, game-changing technologies for U.S. national security. This talk will provide an overview of DSO and discuss current investments related to polymer science, such as the Folded Non-Natural Polymers with Biological Function (Fold F(x)) program. Fold F(x) participants are discovering new therapeutics, diagnostics and catalysts by synthesizing and rapidly screening billion-member sequence-defined polymer libraries to identify structures with desired function. The talk will highlight some advances realized in the Fold F(x) program and discuss future research needs.

Investments in the chemical sciences at the Defense Sciences Office of DARPA

254th National Meeting (2017)

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