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Biden announces $150 million ‘Cancer Moonshot’ investment - Roll Call

With six months left in his presidency, Biden doubles down on vow to 'end cancer as we know it' through investments in cancer research.

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Dallas selected as one of three national hubs for new medical innovation federal agency

The city joins Cambridge, Mass. and the Washington, D.C. area as epicenters of the new agency. A Biden administration initiative, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health will work toward medical breakthroughs in treating diseases like cancer, Alzheimer and diabetes.

The Texas Tribune

ARPA-H announces first two regional hubs - Roll Call

The agency is using a “hub-and-spoke” model rather than picking one city, and has selected Dallas and Cambridge, Mass., as first two hubs.

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Biden announces an advanced cancer research initiative as part of the bipartisan 'moonshot' effort

President Joe Biden’s administration is announcing the first cancer-focused initiative under its advanced health research agency

The Independent UK

Health research focus could give NIH competition for funding

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are more interested in biomedical research than ever, but with limited funds for nondefense spending, experts worry the National Institutes of Health could end up in competition with the new agency the Biden administration wants to build to confront the toughest problems.

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Health research focus could give NIH competition for funding - Roll Call

White House has proposed relatively flat funding for NIH and is seeking $1 billion increase for NIH's newer, flashier cousin, ARPA-H.

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Biden to push Congress for more funding for ‘cancer moonshot’ - Roll Call

The seven years of funding for the "cancer moonshot," $1.8 billion as authorized through the 21st Century Cures Act, runs out this September.

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ARPA-H: High-risk, high-reward health research is the mandate of new, billion-dollar US agency

A new multibillion-dollar federal agency was created with a goal of supporting “the next generation of moonshots for health” in science, logistics, diversity and equality. And the agency now has it’s first leader, as President Joe Biden announced Renee Wegrzyn as director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health,…

The Conversation

Biden evokes JFK call to harness ‘best of our energies’ in space race as he touts progress against cancer

‘I believe we can usher in the same unwillingness to postpone — the same national purpose that will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills to end cancer as we know it, and even cure cancers, once and for all’

The Independent UK

Lobbying ramps up around new health agency headquarters - Roll Call

At least 10 states have expressed interest in hosting the new agency, tasked with speeding to market innovative health technologies.

Roll Call

The national bidding war for ARPA-H

An intra-state bidding war has broken out for the chance to house the headquarters of a multi-billion-dollar new science agency aimed at curing major diseases—before the agency's structure has even been finalized by Congress.

Axios

Texas wants to be home to the Biden administration’s new biomedical research agency

DALLAS – A coalition of science advocates wants Texas to permanently stake its claim in the biotech world by welcoming the federal government’s new biomedical research agency. And it’s waging an aggressive, targeted campaign to convince lawmakers that the state is the agency’s perfect new home.

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