FLICKR, MARC NOZELL
The White House issued a report Monday (October 18) on the progress of US Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative, an ambitious effort to accelerate cancer research. The report lays out broad goals for the initiative over the next two years, including supporting innovation, establishing private-sector partnerships, and fostering collaboration.
Congress has yet to approve $700 million of the project’s $1 billion budget, Reuters reports.
Among its accomplishments so far, the Cancer Moonshot has secured a partnership between the National Cancer Institute, Amazon, and Microsoft to provide cloud-based data-sharing for cancer researchers, according to a White House press release. It has also struck deals with ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft to provide affordable transportation for cancer patients to and from treatment.
Under the initiative, ...
