Biden Relaunches Cancer Moonshot With Goal of Halving Cancer Deaths in 25 years

US President Joe Biden is revamping and relaunching his cancer moonshot, a project he began as Vice President in 2016. Biden set a goal of reducing cancer deaths by 50% in the next 25 years by policy changes that would spur new innovation in biopharma, increase healthcare data infrastructure, and reduce drug prices.

According to Zachary Brennan, “The speech came amid a busy day of science and biotech-focused announcements for the Biden administration: from new plans that were hatched to further grow domestic biomanufacturing with new training and educational programs, to an executive order that will ignite a new genomic data initiative and look into regulatory reforms, to revealing his appointment of Renee Wegrzyn, VP of business development at Ginkgo Bioworks, as the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), which aims to engage in riskier biopharma R&D.”

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(Source: Endpoints: September 13^th, 2022)