WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Friday proposed the creation of a $6.5 billion medical research agency with an audacious goal: quickly developing cures for diseases including cancer, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes.
If the agency is established, it could mark a fundamental shift in how the U.S. government funds research, steering the emphasis from basic science to higher-risk projects more directly aimed at major medical breakthroughs.
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But DEAD HEAD JOE already cured cancer with his MOONSHOT program which was launched in January 2016 (after being VP for over 7 years) to distract attention from the failing Obama care. Another publicity stunt but not a cheap one for taxpayers
So NIH is to large, too slow, and too conservative
So put a new 6.5 billion dollar agency INSIDE NIH?
Better yet: give more grant money, scored grants acceptable or not acceptable, then randomly grant research dollars to the “acceptables”. You’ll see new ideas tried and more young researchers get money.
This is a great idea — as long as the government acts as a fiduciary for taxpayers and not a free cash machine for private sector companies when it invests in the high-risk clinical and manufacturing development.
War on cancer was declared in 1971, not 1975.