Suzanne Wright Foundation

HARPA The Patients Are Waiting Bob Wright established The Suzanne Wright Foundation in November 2016, in honor of his wife Suzanne, to drive urgency and action in the fight against pancreatic cancer. The Suzanne Wright Foundation advocates for HARPA, the Health Advanced Research Projects Agency, to drive innovation in biomedical research. Despite medical innovation over the last century, millions of Americans with deadly and debilitating conditions have seen no progress…. There are more than 9,000 known diseases, yet there are approved treatments for only 500. Two out of five Americans have a disease with no cure. HARPA would leverage federal research assets and private sector tools to develop capabilities for diseases, like pancreatic cancer, that have not benefited from the current system.