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Cures 2.0 is finally unveiled

Looking into the biggest provisions from the bipartisan bill

November 17, 2021 1:36 AM UTC

The 21st Century Cures 2.0 legislation released Tuesday by Reps. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.) seeks to create a new applied biomedical R&D agency, the Advanced Research Projects Administration for Health, incentivize the development of antimicrobial drugs, and tweak FDA and CMS processes in ways that are intended to promote biomedical innovation.

The bill takes sides in a dispute over where ARPA-H should be located, siding with the Biden administration by making it part of NIH. It would authorize the full $6.5 billion the White House has requested and exempts ARPA-H from many of the regulations on funding, grant-making and hiring that constrain NIH. ...