Governor Healey Demands President Trump Reopen ARPA-H Hub in Massachusetts

Governor Healey Demands President Trump Reopen ARPA-H Hub in Massachusetts  

BOSTON – Governor Maura Healey is demanding that President Donald Trump lift the stop-work order for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Investor Catalyst Hub in Massachusetts and abandon his plans to terminate it. In 2023, Governor Healey’s administration worked closely with its partners to win a competitive bid to open the medical research hub in Massachusetts, with a focus on supporting early-stage ventures and turning federal investment into real-world treatments and cures. ARPA-H has brought approximately $330 million to Massachusetts companies, researchers, and nonprofits, the most of any other state. 

“President Trump is yet again attacking research and science. First, he cut billions of dollars in NIH funding, causing hundreds of clinical trials to be halted and impacting tens of thousands of patients,” said Governor Healey. “Now, he is threatening to abruptly close the ARPA-H hub in Massachusetts, wasting taxpayer dollars and derailing efforts to find cures for childhood cancer and bring health care services to rural areas. He is putting lives at risk, cutting jobs and hurting American competitiveness, as China and other foreign countries are the only ones benefiting from this. President Trump needs to immediately reverse this decision and keep open the ARPA-H hub in Massachusetts.” 

Governor Healey has strongly opposed President Trump’s cuts to research and science. Earlier this year she wrote to U.S Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy and demanded he reverse cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), citing data showing that the cuts have stopped 380 clinical trials and impacted more than 74,000 patients nationally. She also launched the Discovery, Research and Innovation for a Vibrant Economy (DRIVE) Initiative to grow Massachusetts’s world-renowned research and innovation economy and create thousands of new jobs.