Biden Relaunches Moonshot Effort to ‘End Cancer as We Know It’ (1)

President Joe Biden will revive his moonshot initiative to expedite progress on cancer treatments and prevention and detection capabilities, bringing back a signature program he led in his final year as vice president.

The 2016 cancer moonshot aimed to “end cancer as we know it” as Biden would often say, by focusing on advancing scientific discovery, improving collaboration and data sharing and setting up a number of public-private partnerships. The new moonshot will focus on reducing the disease’s death rate by at least 50% in the next 25 years.

“A lot has changed that makes it possible to set really ...