While its creation was only announced earlier this year, with Vice President Joe Biden at the helm instilling hope and calling for action, the Cancer Moonshot may shockingly be nearing its end, as we know it. Uncertainties overshadow the future of this initiative as the White House Cancer Task Force is expected to exist in its current configuration only until the end of the Obama Administration, January 20, 2017.
Through a recent interview with Greg Simon, Executive Director of the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force, PMWC has learned that he will not continue in that position beyond the current Administration. It’s unclear what the change in Administration and a Trump Presidency will mean, and what impact it will have on the initiative’s funding and goals, on the collaborations already initiated, and on specific projects already under way. Administration uncertainties aside, we unquestionably need to win the fight against cancer.
