Vice President Joe Biden Starts The Cancer “Moonshot” Initiative At Penn

PENN PRESIDENT AMY GUTMANN, Vice President Joe Biden, and Dr. Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health, headed a panel of cancer research experts meeting to discuss future efforts at finding a cure for cancer. Penn’s leadership in the field of immunotherapy was one of the reasons the university was selected for Biden’s launch of the initiative. Photo by Bonnie Squires

VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN lays out his plan for getting all organizations, federal agencies, and researchers to share data on cancer initiatives. Photo by Bonnie Squires

CONGRESSMAN CHAKA FATTAH, whose district includes all of the Penn facilities, chats with Penn research physicians while waiting for Vice President Biden to arrive for the tour and round table discussion of cancer research. Photo by Bonnie Squires

FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN Marjorie Margolies talks with (left) Dr. Jonathan Epstein and Dr. John Glick before Vice President Biden arrives. Glick is the founding director of the Abramson Cancer Center and is also a nationally known breast cancer researcher and physician. Photo by Bonnie Squires

DR. LARRY JAMESON, Executive Vice President of the Penn Health System and Dean of the Pereleman School of Medicine, welcomes Congressman Pat Meehan to the Biden launch of the Moonshot project to find a cure for cancer. Photo by Bonnie Squires