EPA Administrator Michael Regan, who like the president lost a son to cancer, will join the so-called Cancer Cabinet to help shift some focus to preventing
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Published: Tuesday, May 4, 2021
A cancer patient receiving chemotherapy treatment. Photo credit: kbrookes/Flickr
A cancer patient receiving chemotherapy treatment. kbrookes/Flickr
President Biden pledged last week to end cancer as we know it, a bold promise focused on boosting funding to the National Institutes of Health for a special Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health.
ARPA-H would be similar to the Department of Energy s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E, acting as a technology incubator by funding high-potential, high-impact projects that are too early for private-sector investment, but with the singular purpose to develop breakthroughs to prevent, detect and treat diseases. I can think of no more worthy investment. I know of nothing that is more bipartisan, Biden told Congress last week. So let s end cancer as we know it. It s within our power. It s within our power to do it.