A New Agency to Accelerate Biomedical Science Can Succeed, Under the Right Conditions

By Aysha Akhtar and Paul A. Locke, Published in The Hill 02/16/22

The creation of a $6.5 billion Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, also known as ARPA-H, is one of the most exciting initiatives proposed by President Biden in his full budget request to Congress for Fiscal Year 2022. ARPA-H is to be modeled after the similarly named Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which has proven successful in accelerating ground-breaking, out-of-the box technologies for the military. According to the budget request, increasing direct federal spending in health will drive transformative and innovative research, as well as quicken application and implementation breakthroughs to enhance health… Read more of the article on The Hill.