President Joe Biden’s proposal to create a biomedical innovation hub within the National Institutes of Health is getting another jumpstart after being held up in the annual appropriations process.
Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.), head of a key House health panel, introduced a bill Friday to authorize the Advanced Research Projects for Health—a new health entity designed to catalyze cutting-edge discoveries through a public-private partnership approach instead of the research grant process the agency has used for more than a century.
The bill introduction comes after the Senate dropped the ARPA-H provision from its social spending package. Congressional leaders ...