Biden wants $6.5 billion for new health agency to speed treatments
Share A surgeon removes a tumor visible on a monitor. Accelerating cancer treatments would be one goal of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health that President Joe Biden has proposed creating. Matt Rourke/AP Biden wants $6.5 billion for new health agency to speed treatments Apr. 9, 2021 , 5:30 PM The Biden administration today began to flesh out a proposal for a new agency—modeled on the military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—that would seek to speed the development of medical treatments by funding risky, innovative projects. The agency, dubbed ARPA-H...