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ARPA-H: High-risk, high-reward health research is the mandate of new, billion-dollar US agency

  • Written by Tong Sun, Assistant Dean of Translational Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington
ARPA-H: High-risk, high-reward health research is the mandate of new, billion-dollar US agencyThe Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is meant to bring forward-thinking nimbleness to health innovation.Pixtum/iStock via Getty Images

A new multibillion-dollar federal agency was created with a goal of supporting “the next generation of moonshots for health” in science, logistics, diversity and equality. And the agency now...

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