Biden has proposed a $9 billion increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), of which $6.5 billion will be earmarked for a new funding institute to be called ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency – Health).

“Follow the science” was a term we became all too familiar with during the Covid pandemic. But it appears that the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden is taking that concept to a whole new level. Biden has proposed a $9 billion increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), of which $6.5 billion will be earmarked for a new funding institute to be called ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency – Health).

The new health agency’s mission will be to tackle “big issues” in health, such as chronic problems and issues through visionary “blue sky” thinking. The agency’s mission will be similar to DARPA’s, which was to innovate high-risk, high-reward projects in the defense arena. Among the things DARPA came up with, it will be remembered, were the internet, GPS, and the computer mouse.

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