President Joe Biden is set to channel John F. Kennedy on the 60th anniversary of the former president’s moonshot speech.
, which dedicated $1.8 billion over seven years for cancer research and was signed into law in 2016 by President Barack Obama.Obama designated Biden, then vice president, to run “mission control” on directing the cancer funds as a recognition of Biden’s grief as a parent and desire to do something about it.that he chose not to run for president in 2016 primarily because of Beau’s death.
, modeled after similar research and development initiatives benefiting the Pentagon and intelligence community.On Monday, Biden will announce Dr. Renee Wegrzyn as the inaugural director of ARPA-H, which has been given the task of studying treatments and potential cures for cancers, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and other diseases. He will also announce a new National Cancer Institute scholars’ program to provide resources to early-career scientists studying treatments and cures for cancer.
Despite the challenges, he’s optimistic about cutting the cancer death rate in half over the next 25 years.
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