ARPA-H, Biden’s DARPA for health, raises hopes, skepticism

A proposed new government body, the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Health, will make it possible to “end cancer as we know it” and hasten the demise of Alzheimer’s, diabetes and other diseases, President Joe Biden told the American people at his first address to a joint session of Congress last month.

ARPA-H is, according to supporters, an antidote to the bureaucracy and incrementalism that some patient advocates believe prevents NIH from turning an investment of over $50 billion per year into transformative medicines. ...