President Joe Biden Monday announced biotech company vice president and longtime scientist Renee Wegrzyn as his choice to lead a new government agency focusing on biomedical research.
Wegrzyn is poised to take over the administration’s new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, following stints as a scientist with the government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—entities that develop cutting-edge research and technologies.
Biden on Monday said that Wegrzyn would bring the “legendary DARPA attitude” to ARPA-H, and that the agency would have the “singular purpose” of creating breakthroughs against cancer and other illnesses. ...
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