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# Bill Would Create New Health Advanced Research Agency
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/bill-would-create-new-health-advanced-research-agency/
- Published: 2021-06-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T17:04:45.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: FDA Policy/General, #legacy-id-D5149617

Rep. **Diana DeGette** (D-CO) says she and Rep. **Fred Upton** (R-MI) have drafted wording to be included in a circulating Cures 2.0 bill that would, among other things, create an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) that is sought by President **Joe Biden** to develop cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s and other difficult diseases. In a [statement](https://degette.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/CURES2?ref=fdaweb.com) (includes links to a section-by-section bill summary and a copy of the full Cures 2.0 discussion draft), DeGette says her proposal would authorize the more than $6.5 billion the White House says is needed to run the new agency.

The legislative language coincides with the 6/22 release of a detailed White House concept [paper](https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/06/22/science.abj8547?ref=fdaweb.com) on the new agency that was published in *Science Magazine*.

“The federal government has amazing resources at its disposal,” DeGette and Upton say, “and now is the time to put the full weight of those resources to use to cure some of the world’s most devastating diseases such as cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and more. Developing and delivering new lifesaving cures is a mission that must unite all of us.”

The legislators say that, unlike other federally-funded biomedical research programs, ARPA-H would be run by a relatively small number of program managers who would be given a much higher degree of autonomy to choose which projects to fund, allowing them to pursue high-risk, high-reward projects that other agencies would likely shy away from.