Politico August 16, 2024
WASHINGTON WATCH
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health wants to enable you to screen for cancer without leaving home.
That’s the goal of the agency’s new Platform Optimizing SynBio for Early Intervention and Detection in ONcology, or POSEIDON, program, managed by Dr. Ross Uhrich.
While building the program, Uhrich asked people in government, academia and business what they thought the future of perfect cancer care was. Their answer: catching cancer at Stage I.
“Typically, people go to the doctor when they’re not feeling well, not when they’re feeling perfect,” Uhrich told Erin. “Creating a paradigm shift, where people can say, ‘I’m feeling OK and I might be no-risk, but it’s at my discretion to determine when I want to...