Biden’s $6.5 Billion Biomedical Agency Backed in Bipartisan Bill (2)

Lawmakers are hewing closely to President Joe Biden’s proposal for a new $6.5 billion science agency as part of a sweeping measure to deliver medical breakthroughs.

Reps. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.) on Tuesday released a draft bill, dubbed Cures 2.0 — the follow-up to the landmark 21st Century Cures Act biomedical innovation law (Public Law 114-255). The legislation’s release coincides with a commentary in Science magazine setting forth the vision of White House science office and National Institutes of Health officials for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, as well as why it ...