Several months into Onslow County vaccination efforts, the big picture shows why the county has one of the lowest responses in the state and what officials are doing to combat it.
In an effort to reinvigorate the UK’s research and development endeavors, the government announced Friday (February 19) the creation of an independent, scientist-led funder named the Advanced Research & Invention Agency. The goal is to have the organization up and running by next year.
In the same vein as the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the goal of ARIA is to take on “high-risk, high-reward” projects that are largely unencumbered by the bureaucratic interference and finicky grant procedures of traditional research projects, according to the announcement. The statement cited DARPA’s early work on mRNA vaccines and antibody therapy as being vital to the global COVID-19 response.
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U.K. business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said this week that a new high-risk U.K. research agency would be located within his department. Wiktor Szymanowicz/Barcroft Media via Getty Images
New U.K. funding agency would tackle innovative research
Feb. 19, 2021 , 2:15 PM
The U.K. government has released its plans for emulating the storied high-risk, high-reward U.S. funding agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). During the 2019 election campaign, the Conservative government promised to set up such an agency, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former adviser Dominic Cummings pushed for it. Now, it has a name: the Advanced Research & Invention Agency (ARIA), and a confirmed budget. Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng announced today it would be funded by an initial £800 million over 4 years, and would begin to disburse grants by 2022.