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To accelerate new cancer treatments, NIH will team up with pharma on immunotherapy research

The NIH will team up with 11 biopharma companies to push forward new immunotherapy treatments for cancer. A first step: Identifying disease biomarkers.
Dr. Francis Collins, director of the NIH.

WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health on Thursday announced a $215 million public-private partnership with 11 pharmaceutical companies in what the agency bills as a significant next step in its cancer moonshot.

The Partnership for Accelerating Cancer Therapies, or PACT, is a five-year agreement to push ahead with research that seeks to “identify, develop and

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