--- title: Renee Wegrzyn Is on the TIME100 Next 2023 List description: Find out how Renee Wegrzyn is shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership. canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2023/6308520/renee-wegrzyn/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-09-13T11:00:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:19:24.949Z og:title: 2023 TIME100 Next: Renee Wegrzyn og:description: Find out why Renee Wegrzyn is on this year’s TIME100 Next list og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2023/6308520/renee-wegrzyn/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt429cda962d182e94/698a400247ca383bb23bb195/time100-next-renee-wegrzyn-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2023 TIME100 Next: Renee Wegrzyn og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 2023 TIME100 Next: Renee Wegrzyn twitter:description: Find out why Renee Wegrzyn is on this year’s TIME100 Next list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt429cda962d182e94/698a400247ca383bb23bb195/time100-next-renee-wegrzyn-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 13, 2023 # Renee Wegrzyn by [Alice Park](https://time.com/author/alice-park/) ## Alice Park Senior Correspondent  Renee Wegrzyn Renee WegrzynMatthew J. Lee—The Boston Globe/Getty Images [As the director](https://nihrecord.nih.gov/2022/10/14/wegrzyn-named-first-arpa-h-director) of the new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, Renee Wegrzyn has the task of finding and funding major biomedical innovations. With a multibillion-dollar budget, she tests ideas that are too risky for the private sector; in August, the agency launched a program to find innovations to help cancer surgeons more precisely target tumor cells while leaving healthy cells undisturbed and improve the health outcomes of operations. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2023/6308520/renee-wegrzyn/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2023/6308520/renee-wegrzyn/"},"headline":"Renee Wegrzyn","datePublished":"2023-09-13T11:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:19:24.949Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2023/6308520/renee-wegrzyn/","keywords":["TIME 100 Next","sponsorshipblock","T100NextInnovators2023"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt429cda962d182e94/698a400247ca383bb23bb195/time100-next-renee-wegrzyn-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alice Park","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/alice-park/"}],"creator":"Alice Park","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt429cda962d182e94/698a400247ca383bb23bb195/time100-next-renee-wegrzyn-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2023/6308520/renee-wegrzyn/","name":"Renee Wegrzyn"}}]}] ```