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The Biden administration on Wednesday announced it will bankroll a $24 million project to develop mRNA platforms that “train the immune system” to fight cancer and other diseases.
It is the first research funding awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, which the administration created last year to accelerate “high-risk, high-reward” biomedical research, modeled after the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.
A team at Emory University in Georgia will lead a three-year project to create “a toolbox of mRNA and related technologies that could be used to ‘turn on’ helpful immune responses like prompting immune cells to target and attack tumors,” the administration said in its press release…
