Former ARPA-H director Renee Wegrzyn wants to solve science’s ‘magic hands’ problem

Renee Wegrzyn spent her career building the future of American science—including the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, the White House agency created to accelerate health breakthroughs. Then the Trump administration showed her the door. Wegrzyn cofounded Transfyr to tackle what she calls one of the most overlooked issues in science: the magic hands problem. She explains why fixing this unglamorous bottleneck is the prerequisite for everything AI promises to deliver in...