President Joe Biden’s plan to tackle some of the deadliest and most daunting diseases took a major step forward after the US House authorized the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health (ARPA-H), an independent body tasked with accelerating biomedical research and innovation.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health Act, introduced by Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-CA, in October 2021, passed the House on 22 June in a 336 to 85 bipartisan vote, sending...