Feds Winding Down ARPA-H Research Hub in Cambridge
The Trump administration is planning to wind down a health care innovation hub in Cambridge that’s brought nearly $300 million in funding to Massachusetts.
The Trump administration is planning to wind down a health care innovation hub in Cambridge that’s brought nearly $300 million in funding to Massachusetts.
The life sciences and lab market across the Boston metro area has been in a state of flux for some time, but a new factors have added extra pressure on landlords and owners.
The Biden administration “planted its flag here in Massachusetts,” Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday, by agreeing after a competitive process to create a biomedical and health hub in Greater Boston through the federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H.
As a a group of political leaders, business groups and universities lobbies the Biden administration to pick Massachusetts to be the home of a new advanced health research agency, the New England Council last week asked the federal government to consider New England more broadly.
During his visit to Boston yesterday, President Joe Biden touted his push for a cancer “moonshot” and declared that the separate federal infrastructure law his administration is implementing will be “the most significant investment” since President Dwight D. Eisenhower.