The agency’s Science and Technology Directorate wants to add testing and evaluation sites, forge partnerships with industry and create internal roles to lead the work.

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.