WASHINGTON — In one of the most emotional moments of his first major address to Congress, President Biden on Wednesday called on lawmakers to help him “end cancer as we know it.”
The bold pledge came after Biden gave a high-profile endorsement of his administration’s proposal to create a new biomedical research agency aimed at developing “breakthrough” treatments for conditions including cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and diabetes.
In his address, Biden urged lawmakers to create a new agency within the National Institutes of Health known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, modeled after a Pentagon office known as DARPA that has helped to develop technological breakthroughs like the internet and GPS.
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