system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Has there ever been an equivalent of the Manhattan Project or 60's Space Program, in the realm of medical technology?

Has the realm of medicine ever had a huge project, with ample funding, directed at a very specific goal, that was then achieved in within several years?  I arrived at this question after wondering how long it would take us to cure cancer or AIDS if such programs had, say, 10 times or 100 times their current funding.
gpt
The eradication of smallpox is one such achievement, involving the level of international cooperation that is absent in the other two examples.

For something more current, the 1000-dollar genome is a goal that's tackled mostly by private companies. We're getting very close to achieving that goal.