Susan Walsh/APVice President Joe Biden gestures toward President Barack Obama’s during the president’s State of the Union address, Jan. 12, 2016.
WASHINGTON — President Obama will ask Congress for $ 755 million for cancer research in his upcoming budget, the White House said Monday, bringing the total price tag for Vice President Biden’s cancer “moonshot” to $ 1 billion.
Research into immunotherapy, combination therapy and early detection techniques will be part of programs the administration hopes to create at the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration. Vaccines to prevent viruses that cause cancer are another focus.
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