WASHINGTON, Rabi'II 22, 1437, Feb 1, 2016, SPA -- The White House said Monday that U.S. President Barack Obama will ask Congress for $755 million in cancer research funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in his 2017 budget request. The White House said in a statement that Obama has tasked Vice President Joe Biden with leading a “moonshot” to accelerate work to find cancer cures and treatments, which will begin with $195 million in new research at NIH in the 2016 fiscal year. --SPA 20:44 LOCAL TIME 17:44 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w