What is Cancer Moonshot?
{{Infobox company | name = Cancer Moonshot | image = P20220912AS-2110 (52517607038).jpg | image_caption = President Joe Biden gives a speech about Cancer Moonshot at the [[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum]] in Boston, Massachusetts, September 2022. | founder = [[Joe Biden]] | hq_location = [[Washington, D.C.]] | hq_location_country = U.S. | key_people = [[Joe Biden]] <br> [[Jill Biden]] | website = {{URL2|https://www.whitehouse.gov/cancermoonshot/|cancermoonshot.gov}} }} '''Cancer Moonshot''' is a [[Federal government of the United States|United States government]] initiative that was founded and launched by then-[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Joe Biden]] in January 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cancer Moonshot|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/cancermoonshot/|access-date=2023-03-06|website=The White House|language=en-US|archive-date=2023-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306092039/https://www.whitehouse.gov/cancermoonshot/|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Origins and purpose == [[File:Joe Biden speaking about the Cancer Moonshot.jpg|thumb|[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Joe Biden]] gives a speech about Cancer Moonshot at the [[White House]], October 2016.]] During Joe Biden's term as vice president, he founded and launched Cancer Moonshot under President Barack Obama, to support cancer research and enable progress in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. [[Barack Obama|President Obama]] then later signed [[H.R. 34, the 21st Century CURES Act]] on December 13, 2016. The bill included $1.8 billion to support the Cancer Moonshot initiative. The legislation also commits to combat the prescription opioid and heroin epidemic, as well as additional funds to support mental health reform and an improved drug development process. The bill was later renamed for the funding for the Cancer Moonshot in honor of Biden's eldest son, [[Beau Biden]], who died from [[Brain tumor|brain cancer]] in May 2015. == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Joe Bide