The bipartisan legislation from Reps. Ro Khanna and Rich McCormick directs the personnel agency to coordinate an agency-wide push on boosting U.S. biotech efforts.

Renee Wegrzyn will be tasked with shaping ARPA-H‘s research portfolio to develop biomedical innovations preventing, detecting and treating diseases including cancer.

The fund is intended to make long-term investments in startups and other entities developing emerging technologies that the alliance is interested in.

They’re planning a new forum and other collaborative engagements as political tensions evolve in the Indo-Pacific.

Officials involved were inspired by vascular systems that support repair in multicellular organisms and ecosystems.