September 12, 2022
D.C. News
  • President Biden today will announce Dr. Renee Wegrzyn as the inaugural director of Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), the new agency focused on biomedical innovation. The president will also sign an executive order on biotechnologies as part of an update on his administration’s cancer moonshot initiative. The order will bolster research and aim to solidify supply chains so that biotechnologies used in the fight against cancer are developed and produced in the U.S. (Fact sheet here; Article here)