United States president Barack Obama have allocated a total amount of $1 billion in two years to continue researches and fight on the no. 2 leading killer in the nation and world. The announcement came on Monday as a tease on the proposed budget for fiscal year 2017.
Cancer is getting handled as the White House proposed a billion dollars to conduct more researches and allocate funds to organizations in the health department. According to NBC News, the president will be spending close to $1 billion over the next two years on a "moonshot" to battle cancer. Obama has asked the Congress for $755 million for 2017 and another $195 million to initially fund the projects. Though not specifically stated, most of the money will be received by the National Institutes of Health which conducts medically relevant researches.
An overview of the funding allocation has been released and is reported by Popular Science. In the article, overview of how the money would be used was distributed into six main research areas. The list follows: Immunotherapy, Technology to detect cancer earlier, vaccines for cancer-causing viruses, more data sharing and scientific collaboration, genomic analyses and pediatric cancer. Also, other than the National Institutes of Health; Food and Drug Administration will receive $75 million for data work. The Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs are in the list too for long-term studies into risk factors. Lastly, Vice President's Exceptional Opportunities in Cancer Research will be getting funding for high-return researches.
Moreover, The Hill noted that the funding is a support to Vice President Biden's "moonshot" bid to cure cancer. Last year, Biden lost his son due to cancer and made it a personal priority to get a speedy progress in battling cancer. With this, an official said ""There's a reason the vice president is aspiring big, it's the only way we're going to push the envelope and make this kind of progress." Further, Biden led a task force intended to make decades worth of advancements in fighting cancer.
Fighting cancer is not just a dream as the White House allocated $1 billion to continue in resolving the killer. The allocation has been disclosed by President Barack Obama and will go to the National Institutes of Health to kick start the research programs. Other organizations are also provided with the funding to continue in battling cancer. Also, Vice President Biden has made it his priority to get a track in curing cancer.
