WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden, charged by President Barack Obama to lead government efforts to find a cure for cancer, will discuss his plans next Wednesday at the Duke University School of Medicine, his office said.
Dubbed the White Residence Cancer Moonshot Task Force, Biden’s group will be “advisory only,” and it formalizes efforts Biden has actually made to supercharge cancer research since the death of his son, Beau, of brain cancer much less than a year ago.
“We’re not trying to make incremental adjustment here,” Biden wrote on the blog site Medium. “We’re trying to get to a quantum leap on the path to a cure.”
Obama has actually asked Biden to double the rate of progress on cancer treatment and prevention and laid out areas for potential progress including better use of federal dollars to support cancer prevention, treatment and early detection.
The Defense Department, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health are among about a dozen federal agencies involved. The task force will submit a report on its findings to Obama at the end of December.
“I don’t claim to be a cancer expert,” Biden has actually said. “But I do have actually something to offer when it comes to being a catalyst and bringing folks together.”
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