Posted on 02/22/2025 11:33:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
As President Donald Trump directs cuts of tens of thousands of federal government employees, among those laid off at America's health agencies are workers at a National Institutes of Health department focused on dementia research, including its incoming leader, three people familiar with the terminations told ABC News.
The firings at the Center for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias (CARD) affected roughly a tenth of the nearly 100 employees at the center, but in interviews with ABC News, workers there described a carefully woven web of collaboration that they say could be threatened by the layoffs of just a handful of employees, warning that it could jeopardize progress in answering key questions about dementia.
Most shocking to CARD workers was the termination of lead researcher Kendall Van Keuren-Jensen, who was announced internally as the organization's next acting director and was expected to bring significant advancements to the research field.
"It's just jaw-dropping," an upper-level CARD employee told ABC News of Van Keuren-Jensen's firing.
Neurologists say the downsizing at CARD could be a blow to the scientific quest for new Alzheimer's treatments. NIH scientists at CARD work with external scientists to turn early scientific discoveries into treatments and medicines.
The outgoing director, Andrew Singleton, told colleagues in an email that the layoffs would "have a profound impact on the work we do to understand and treat disease," according to one CARD employee.
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The hyphenated last name is a dead giveaway. Liberal twit.
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It says “they work closely with...”. It is not said but we can then imply the following. Said government employees then receive royalties back from the pharma companies. This is unethical and wrong. An employee of the government is already paid to do this work and government employees should never receive ongoing royalties for government paid work. At best, perhaps a one time modest patent bonus but the government owns the patent.
“...roughly a tenth of the nearly 100 employees”
It’s ok. they won’t remember anyway.
never has so much money been wasted (sometimes with malice) on big academe/big med/big pharma as has been on althezheimers. they have nothing to really treat it. decades of wasted money. it’s very very sad.
The hyphenated last name is a dead giveaway.“
Yep.
ABC News/Disney.
It's amazing how newly fired people always think they are indispensable and the organization will collapse without them.
And it never does.
At this point it’s not clear whether the medical establishment wants people to have Alzheimer’s or doesn’t want them to have it.
These people think the US Government is there to pay for any and every thing the world needs.
Like what? Alzheimer's has basically been a progressive and unstoppable disease for like forever now. What do these people actually do there day in and day out?
Nobody believes these people are looking to prevent or cure anything.
$$$$
That is our biggest healthcare challenge IMO.
An old chief engineer once told me of a test to see if a person was indispensable on the ship.
Have the person put their hand in a bucket of water and then pull it out. If their hand left an imprint they were indispensable.
This is so cool.
Clean house of everyone who has been there for a long period. Then, if their hand calls for it, rehire those who weren’t arrogant, overbearing bureaucrats during the years they worked there.
The subheading could be:
NIH Returns To Using And Applying Real Science.
More winning.
Two things cause dementia, too low cholesterol and too many carbs. It’s also possible that higher (no, not super-high) blood pressure helps, but I’m not sure of that (but people with higher blood pressure do live longer).
See, no need to spend billions every year to ‘study’ it.
Yes nothing was Most shocking about loon Biden to them fools at best.
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