21st Century Cures 2.0 includes ARPA-H, antibiotics incentives, real-world evidence

Reps. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.) Tuesday released a discussion draft of the 21st Century Cures Act 2.0 that seeks to establish a new agency to fund breakthrough medical research, create market incentives for the development of new antimicrobial therapies, and expand FDA’s use of real-world evidence.

The discussion draft has a placeholder for provisions establishing the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an organization that will be embedded in NIH and modelled after the Defense Advanced Projects Administration (DARPA). ...