You may not know the name Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, but the White House certainly does. Earlier this year, Vice President Joe Biden tapped the billionaire surgeon and biotech entrepreneur to advise the Obama Administration’s Cancer Moonshot program to develop genetically tailored cures for the diseases.
On November 19, the man Biden described as a “brilliant, sometimes controversial guy” had dinner with two other controversial guys, President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Of the meeting at Trump’s New Jersey golf course, the transition team said in a statement that the trio discussed “innovation in the area of medicine and national medical priorities that need to be addressed in our country.”
