President Joe Biden’s proposed medical research agency could have projects up and running as early as fiscal 2022 to accelerate biomedical breakthroughs even if Congress doesn’t appropriate the entire $6.5 billion request.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health would be housed in the NIH and aims to bring game-changing discoveries to patients in record time through new public-private partnerships for short-term, riskier projects.
“We want this organization to be very, very nimble,” Tara Schwetz, the White House’s point person for ARPA-H, said in an interview. “And so, it would be able to do things that are measured in weeks ...
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