Politico January 12, 2026
With David Lim
Driving the day
TIME STOPS FOR NO ONE … RIGHT? — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is backing research into the lymphatic system and psychedelic drugs to reverse aging, according to the official in charge.
Alicia Jackson, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, says that beyond longer lives, success would mean big savings.
“If you can reverse biological age by even a year, you can get $38 trillion in economic savings,” Jackson told POLITICO.
MAHA makeover: President Joe Biden started ARPA-H to pursue high-risk, high-reward research and saw it as a major player in his moonshot initiative to halve the cancer death rate.
Under Kennedy, the agency is getting a makeover to align...
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