President Joe Biden announced $150 million in Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) awards to further the Cancer Moonshot initiative. The awards will fund research efforts as part of the Precision Surgical Interventions (PSI) program intended to develop solutions regarding tumor edge visualization and critical anatomy visualization.
“For the nearly two million Americans who are newly diagnosed with solid tumor cancers each year, surgical removal is often the first step in their treatment,” said a press release from the White House. “PSI aims to make these surgeries more effective, reducing the need for repeat surgeries and decreasing the damage to healthy tissue, ultimately saving and extending lives.”
The initial awardees of the funding include teams at Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, Rice University, Tulane University, University of California, San Francisco, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Washington, and Cision Vision.
To date, ARPA-H has invested $400 million in cancer detection, prevention, and treatment.
Source: The White House, August 13, 2024.
