The US President Joe Biden appointed Dr Renee Wegrzyn as the inaugural director of the ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health) and detailed her role during his speech on the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s moonshot speech in Rice University.

• Dr Renee Wegrzyn, a biologist and former government scientist, was appointed as the first ever director of the newly created Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).
• The ARPA-H Director’s tenure would last for five years.
• The purpose of the ARPA-H is to seek innovative solutions to biomedical problems.
• It would support highly risky but rewarding researches in the life sciences.