Since the Cancer Moonshot was launched in 2016, remarkable progress and notable scientific accomplishments have been made. To date, NCI has supported over 70 programs and consortia and more than ...

Like many oncologists and cancer researchers, I rolled my eyes when I first heard about Vice President Joe Biden’s cancer “moonshot,” but not because of the noble goal. I was among the many ...

On February 2, 2022, now President Joe Biden r eignited the program as Moonshot 2.0 to “end cancer as we know it today.” An ambitious goal of the program includes reducing cancer-related mortality by ...

More House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, February 2022 as President Biden moved to revive his moonshot initiative to expedite progress on cancer treatments, prevention and detection ...

The cancer moonshot program has been heavily backed by the Biden administration, securing millions in funding from various institutes and grants, including the $23 million funds to Tulane ...

Biden’s cancer moonshot is fashioned after President John F. Kennedy’s 1960s push to put a man on the moon, a period in which the U.S. funded NASA at historically high levels.

In fewer than five years, the Cancer Moonshot has funded more than 240 research projects and 70 programs and consortiums. Its 10 research priorities all point toward greater data sharing and ...

How Joe Biden could "break down the silos" for cancer treatment 03:51. Biden proposed the moonshot idea after his son, Beau, died of brain cancer in 2015. President Obama has requested about $1 ...

DURHAM, N.C.—No one doubts the sincerity of Vice President Joe Biden’s “cancer moonshot” initiative.That’s the cause that Biden announced he’d pursue in October, when he decided not to ...

The National Cancer Moonshot – President Obama’s bold program to eliminate cancer as we know it – borrows part of its name from President Kennedy’s similarly audacious pledge to win the ...

Harking back to America's triumphant race into space, the Obama administration is launching what it calls a "moonshot" effort to cure cancer. Don't expect miracles in the administration's last ...

In 2016, then-Vice President Joe Biden launched the Cancer Moonshot, following the 2015 death of his older son, Beau, to brain cancer at age 46.The moonshot is a national mobilization "to end ...