Former Vice President Joe Biden will serve as the keynote speaker Tuesday at the ribbon-cutting and dedication of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.
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Let the high priests of journalism judge, but I will tell you here and now that this particular scribe has a deep-seated bias: I like Joe Biden.
It’s not a prejudgment based on politics, mind you, but rather personhood—or whatever the right word is that describes the layer of person-ness beneath a person’s personality: that part of the individual that signals to the rest of the world, “Hey, this is me! This is what I care about. This is what drives me.”
In a speech that started out subdued and got more passionate, stirring, and emotional as he went on, former Vice President Joe Biden told a packed audience at the SXSW conference in Austin, TX, about the year he spent leading the Obama administration’s Cancer Moonshot Task Force. He shared how those lessons have shaped the work that he and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, plan to do with their Biden Cancer Initiative.
On Sunday, former Vice President Joe Biden stepped into the spotlight at the SXSW festival, giving a typically enthusiastic Biden speech on all aspects of his new Cancer Moonshot venture.
AUSTIN, Texas — In a country that may be more politically fractured than ever, former Vice President Joe Biden has made it his mission to tackle what he says is “the only bipartisan thing left in America.”
Vice President Joe Biden has sworn to work with the Trump administration—and eagerly so—in the nonpartisan fight against cancer. At SXSW Sunday, Biden and Dr. Jill Biden spoke optimistically about their Cancer Initiative, and Biden stressed the importance of federal funding for cancer research.
At the annual digital, music and entertainment festival in Austin, Tex., former Vice President Joe Biden described how his role in heading up the White House Moonshot on Cancer came about — from a comment he made to former President Obama that his only regret in not running for the presidency was that he would not be able to preside over the cure for cancer.
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday delivered a keynote address at South by Southwest, the renowned ideas conference currently taking place in Austin, Texas. Biden’s focus was cancer.
“You’re the future,” Joe Biden told a rapt audience Sunday afternoon at the South by Southwest Conference here, appealing to the brightest minds in tech and media to join him in his commitment to fighting cancer. “You could make a gigantic impact. We need your ingenuity. You could have a profound impact on cancer.”
AUSTIN, TEXAS — In his first major appearance since leaving the White House, former Vice President Joe Biden spoke to a packed auditorium at SXSW on Sunday afternoon about a world in which cancer isn’t fatal.
This year’s David & Lyn Silfen University Forum, at Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce St., will discuss the past, present, and future of cancer research and treatment.
Joe Biden, 47th Vice President of the United States, will receive Research!America’s Gordon and Llura Gund Leadership Award for his commitment to accelerating cancer research as the driving force behind the White House Cancer Moonshot.
Vice President Biden, who led the Obama administration’s “cancer moonshot” initiative, will create a nonprofit organization to grapple with a broad range of cancer issues, including the high cost of cancer drugs, he said in an interview Wednesday. “I’m going to begin a national conversation and get Congress and advocacy groups in to make sure these treatments are accessible for everyone, including these vulnerable underserved populations, and that we have a more rational way of paying for them while promoting innovation,” Biden said.
NEW ORLEANS — Vice President Biden called on the nation’s leading cancer researchers to accelerate progress in the fight against the disease by sharply boosting collaborations and data sharing and by giving him advice on how to make the federal government a forceful ally in the anti-cancer effort.
“I have the authority to do everything I can to put the federal government in a position where it’s total value-added and it doesn’t get in your way,” the vice president told thousands of scientists gathered at the annual conference of the American Association for Cancer Research. “But you have to tell me how.”