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Biden renews Cancer Moonshot mission to “cure cancers”; Names Renee Wegrzyn director of ARPA-H
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Biden renews Cancer Moonshot mission to “cure cancers”; Names Renee Wegrzyn director of ARPA-H

When you are making a point that the country that put humans on the moon also has the capacity to cure cancers, venue and timing matter. On Sept. 12, President Joe Biden chose John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum—and the 60th anniversary of Kennedy’s 1962 moonshot speech—to announce his plan’s latest iteration.