Renee Wegrzyn Plans to Level Up U.S. Health with ARPA-H

<p>It&rsquo;s hard to imagine an ARPA-H founding director more suited to the job than Renee Wegrzyn. She&rsquo;s been a program manager at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), a consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, and the VP of business development at Ginkgo Bioworks.</p> <p>If you haven&rsquo;t heard of ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health), it&rsquo;s only because you&rsquo;re not looking for funding to disrupt the American health care system or push the boundaries of what we&rsquo;re trying to do in life sciences. One of the newest government agencies, it was created in March 2022 as part of the PREVENT Pandemics Act with an initial appropriation of $1 billion in 2022 and a subsequent budget increase to $1.5 billion for 2023.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/neodotlife/renee-wegrzyn-plans-to-level-up-u-s-health-with-arpa-h-61d5ac65403c"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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