Obama's $1B Funding Plan For 'Moonshot' Effort Includes New FDA Virtual Center

The White House is proposing $1 billion in funding for Vice President Joe Biden's “Moonshot” initiative to find a cure for cancer that includes several proposed investments and new programs at the National Institutes of Health and FDA, including a new FDA virtual cancer center. While a portion of the funding will be provided to NIH this year, based on the money allocated to the agency in the Omnibus spending bill signed into law last year, the bulk of the...