Joe Biden to talk about Cancer Moonshot Initiative in Boston next week
During his last State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama put his second-in-command, Vice President Joe Biden, in charge of a new national mission to find a cure for cancer: the Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
“For the loved ones we’ve all lost, for the families that we can still save, let’s make America the country that cures cancer once and for all. What do you say, Joe? Let’s make it happen,” Obama said in January.
Now, Biden will be in Boston to provide an update on the “moonshot” goal, at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate on Wednesday, October 19, at 3:30 p.m., according to a statement from the institute.
Biden will talk about the task force’s goal to double the rate of progress in cancer research and treatment, “striving to accelerate what could be achieved in 10 years in just five,” according to the statement.
Biden’s oldest son, former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, died of brain cancer last year.
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