Robots vs. Cancer: How Tech is Tackling Biden's Moonshot

 

by Erik Sofge 

For Joe Biden, the clock is ticking. The Vice President has roughly two months left to continue leading the Cancer Moonshot initiative, an effort to significantly speed the pace of progress in cancer detection and treatment. It's a personal mission for Biden, whose son Beau died from brain cancer in 2015.

"We had access to the world's best nurses, physicians, and researchers," the Vice President wrote in a report on the initiative in October. "The more time we spent with them, the more we understood that even if we couldn't save our son, the science, medicine, and technology are progressing faster than ever to save countless other sons and daughters."

There's no guarantee that Biden's moonshot — which was announced at the State of the Union address this past January — will survive the transition to a Trump presidency intact. White House initiatives exist at the pleasure of the administration, and don't require congressional approval to begin or end. But even if the initiative is scuttled, that it was formed at all is evidence of a shift in the larger fight. 

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Source: NBC News