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Keeping Momentum on the Cancer Moonshot Initiative

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Elizabeth Jaffee, M.D.

Elizabeth Jaffee, M.D., deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, discusses plans to maintain momentum on the Cancer Moonshot initiative.

Elizabeth Jaffee, M.D., deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, discusses plans to maintain momentum on the national Cancer Moonshot initiative.

The Biden Foundation established an advisory board on what the mission of the Moonshot should be, and then got to work fundraising. The fundraising will continue, and so will Biden's policy and awareness efforts, as partners such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) work to bring new treatments on to the cancer scene.

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