A group of public officials, scientists, business leaders and community advocates made a pitch — and it paid off. Cambridge’s Kendall Square will become a hub for the new federal health agency, ARPA-H.
People cross at the intersection of Ames and Main streets. Kendall Square is home to dozens of biotech companies. An excerpt of this story ran in WBUR's weekly health newsletter, CommonHealth. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox,Earlier this year, a group of public officials, scientists, business leaders and community advocates held a secret meeting in Cambridge.
When the decision came, Brian Johnson, president of the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council, or MassMEDIC, said he felt like the state had landed the headquarters “of what's essentially NASA for health care.” “There is no better place in the world than Kendall Square to house this, because you basically can't walk down the street without bumping into some place or some person who invented some major health care breakthrough.”
“This is like thinking about trying to put a man on the moon,” said Massachusetts Secretary of Economic Development Yvonne Hao. “This is a very ambitious, inspirational project, and it's going to be headquartered here — which means that if you're someone who wants to think about these problems and work on these problems, you're going to be in Massachusetts.”
One reason for the optimism: ARPA-H is designed to follow the model of DARPA, or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. That agency spawned the internet, among other technological advances.
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