A year ago, Renee Wegrzyn signed up for a very cool job. As the inaugural director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, she was to prove that the nontraditional, $2.5 billion experiment will yield the kind of high impact its high-risk investment model promises. Since Wegrzyn joined the agency in October 2022, ARPA-H has […]
By the end of World War I, the use of chemical weapons had resulted in over one million casualties on both sides, including many disabled and wounded. Through a series of unintended events, these chemical weapons set in motion discoveries that led to the development of chemotherapy.
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