Liquid Biopsy, Particle-Beam Radiotherapy Get 'Moonshot' Commitments

The White House announced 36 new project commitments under its ongoing Cancer Moonshot oncology initiative, including an ambitious project to create an open liquid-biopsy database and a NASA-NCI collaboration to explore the benefits of particle-beam radiotherapy.

The latest public- and private-sector commitments under the White House's Cancer Moonshot initiative include projects focused on liquid biopsy and other diagnostic tools for cancer diagnosis and next-generation radiation oncology technology to treat cancer.

Molecular diagnostics and radiation therapy are two fields medtech advocates have been pushing to attract attention by the broad-based initiative...

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