NCI recently announced a master plan for its $500 million Childhood Cancer Data Initiative, a pilot project designed to set the stage for building a publicly accessible, comprehensive data federation for all cancers (The Cancer Letter, Dec. 4, 2020).
President Joe Biden’s proposed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health would be a welcome partner to NCI—particularly in conducting large, collaborative clinical investigations, NCI Director Ned Sharpless said.“I think having ARPA-H as part of the NIH is good for the NCI,” Sharpless said April 11 in his remarks at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. “How this would fit with the ongoing efforts in cancer at the NCI is still something to work out.”
