Politico October 6, 2025
With help from Lauren Brensel
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Danielle Carnival has a new moonshot project.
Carnival, who led then-President Joe Biden’s cancer moonshot initiative, is now CEO of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for patients and families with rare and undiagnosed conditions.
A neuroscientist by training, Carnival says the role is a natural fit. “I’ve spent a lot of my career working with and for communities to get them better access and support, and mostly the treatment that helps them,” she said.
But it’s also been a challenging year for patient advocates and disease researchers. Since President Donald Trump took office, health research grants have been canceled, university funding has been terminated and federal workers who staff the...
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