NI­H's new, in­de­pen­dent break­through drug ac­cel­er­a­tor ARPA-H gets its first em­ploy­ee

De­spite the con­tro­ver­sy of hous­ing it in NIH, HHS Sec­re­tary Xavier Be­cer­ra on Wednes­day af­ter­noon for­mal­ly an­nounced the es­tab­lish­ment of the Ad­vanced Re­search Project Agency for Health (ARPA-H) as an in­de­pen­dent en­ti­ty with­in the NIH, as HHS had pre­vi­ous­ly stip­u­lat­ed that “NIH may not sub­ject ARPA-H to NIH poli­cies.”

Be­cer­ra al­so an­nounced the ap­point­ment of ARPA-H’s in­au­gur­al em­ploy­ee, Adam Rus­sell, who will serve as act­ing deputy di­rec­tor.

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