Nature September 13, 2022
President Joe Biden has selected Renee Wegrzyn, a biologist and former government scientist, as the inaugural director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Launched in March with a US$1-billion budget, ARPA-H aims to shake up the conventional model of funding biomedical research by funding high-risk, high-reward research in the life sciences. The Biden administration intends the agency to emulate the DARPA. Researchers applaud Biden’s choice, but say Wegrzyn will have her work cut out for her — there are many details about the agency that are still in limbo…read more.