White House unveils more Moonshot collaborations

New partnerships the White House unveiled Wednesday as part of its Cancer Moonshot Initiative include a collaboration to fund precompetitive cancer research, the creation of a "formulary" to speed researcher access to cancer therapeutics for studies, and the creation of a public-private partnership focused on computing.

NIH will work with 12 biopharmas as well as research foundations, philanthropies and the Foundation for the NIH to create the Partnership for Accelerating Cancer Therapies (PACT). The organization is to fund precompetitive research in areas such as predictive modeling and platforms for clinical trials of combination therapies. ...