Fred Upton and Diana DeGette

New DARPA-like NIH agency preps for re­al­i­ty as E&C un­veils bi­par­ti­san Cures 2.0 draft bill

House En­er­gy & Com­merce lead­ers Fred Up­ton (R-MI) and Di­ana DeGette (D-CO) on Tues­day re­leased new draft leg­is­la­tion with wide-rang­ing im­pli­ca­tions for pub­lic health, the FDA, and NIH, and that would cre­ate a new, $6.5 bil­lion fed­er­al ad­vanced re­search agency un­der NIH with an aim to cure can­cer, Alzheimer’s and oth­er dif­fi­cult dis­eases.

Sim­i­lar to DARPA, the new NIH di­vi­sion to be known as ARPA-H, would be run by a small group of pro­gram man­agers with more lat­i­tude to pur­sue high-risk, high-re­ward projects that oth­er gov­ern­ment agen­cies would like­ly shy away from.

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