Joe Biden Will Focus on Cancer Research When He Leaves Office
On a hot mic after swearing in a new legislator, Vice President Joe Biden more or less confirmed his plans after he and President Obama leave office. With a mere 16 days (and counting) until Donald Trump is sworn in, Biden told an unidentified woman after the ceremony that he would be continuing his work with foreign policy and cancer research, Quartz reported.
Biden, who lost his son Beau to brain cancer in 2015, launched Cancer Moonshot last year, with President Obama making the announcement in his 2016 State of the Union. The initiative is intended to get cancer therapies to more patients and to encourage researchers to be more open with their findings. As Biden said Tuesday on CSPAN's hot mic, he will set up "The Biden Trust," which won't be "so much about raising money or philanthropy-though there will be some of that-but it's more about keeping these guys cooperating and changing the culture."
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Biden's foreign policy work will be based at the University of Pennsylvania, he said, but he is "deliberately not associating with any one medical center" in pursuing The Biden Trust.
One of the last pieces of bipartisan legislature signed into law by Obama was a $6.3 billion research bill to fund cancer and other disease research. Biden campaigned hard for the bill, and upon its passing, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the law's cancer program would be named after Beau.
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