Vice President Joe Biden: Beginning Cancer “Moonshot” at Penn Medicine

January 15, 2016

Days after President Obama announced the “moonshot” to find a cancer cure during his State of the Union address, Vice President Joe Biden visited Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) to kick off this national effort. He chose Penn because of its cutting-edge work in immunotherapy. “You’re on the cusp of some breakthroughs,” Vice President Biden said. “In my terms-not your medical terms-we are at an inflection point in the fight against cancer.”