Create ARPA-H to pursue high-risk medical research

Diana DeGette and Rep. Fred Upton supported creating the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to pursue cures and treatments for difficult diseases, including cancer, diabetes, ALS and Alzheimer’s. Their proposal would give a relatively small group of program managers substantial freedom to choose high-risk, high-reward projects.

Context: Joint proposal; the source describes ARPA-H as a proposed agency and does not establish that this design was enacted.

In their own words

a relatively small number of program managers who would each be given a high degree of autonomy

The source

Diana DeGette: Developing New Cures ↗

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Retrieved: 11/10/2026