From WisPolitics.com/WisBusiness.com …
— U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is sounding the alarm on more than $65 million in Alzheimer’s disease research funding being halted under the Trump administration.
The Madison Dem says Trump has “single-handedly stopped Alzheimer’s disease research in its tracks” by preventing the NIH from holding the National Institute on Aging’s January Advisory Council meeting. The meeting would have reviewed applications for 14 of the country’s 35 Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers, or ADRCs, according to Baldwin’s office.
Because funding renewal applications for these research centers weren’t taken up by the council, they will begin to run out of funding starting today, and “all of them will run out of funding,” by April 30, Baldwin says.
“This is Alzheimer’s disease research — including at the University of Wisconsin — that is discovering ways to prevent these diseases, detect them earlier, develop new treatments, and ultimately find cures — but Donald Trump is throwing that by the wayside so he can give handouts to his wealthy friends,” Baldwin said in a statement.
Dr. Sanjay Asthana, a specialist in UW-Madison’s Department of Medicine, leads the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at UW-Madison. He’s gotten funding from the NIH for more than 22 years, guiding many studies in the field of aging research, and has focused on the role of hormones in Alzheimer’s disease.
Funding for the ADRCs from the National Institute on Aging goes to 24 U.S. states, where researchers are exploring ways to treat and prevent Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The centers also provide training for health researchers, and Baldwin’s office notes “much of the important progress” in Alzheimer’s research has resulted from the work done at these centers.
The NIH has now been stopped from announcing more than 185 study section and Advisory Council meetings on the Federal Register, the release shows.
See more in the release below.
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