President Biden and first lady Jill Biden appeared at Tulane University in New Orleans Tuesday afternoon for the announcement of up to $150 million in federal funds for cancer surgery research.
The eight recipient institutions — which include Tulane, Rice University, Johns Hopkins and the imaging company Cision Vision — are participants in the Precision Surgical Interventions program of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Together, their goal is to improve accuracy and precision in cancer surgery to reduce the need for repeated procedures when treating patients.
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