Florida Today published FBR and NABR President Matthew Bailey’s latest op-ed on the necessity of nonhuman primates in essential Alzheimer’s research. Mr. Bailey reinforced “Alzheimer’s research is a matter of life and death. But it also involves a lot of monkey business – literally.”

Mr. Bailey stated that “the scientists working to cure Alzheimer's rely heavily on monkeys, because humans and monkeys — and only monkeys, not any other animals — share extremely similar pre-frontal cortices, the part of the brain that controls memory, concentration, and personality." Furthermore, Mr. Bailey discussed how “nonhuman primates are the key to understanding and defeating the fatal dementia, which currently afflicts about 6 million Americans — and is projected to plague 14 million of us by 2060, unless a breakthrough is achieved.”

Bailey concluded his remarks by saying, “misguided animal activists are making scientists' jobs much harder by pressuring lawmakers to preclude using nonhuman primates to develop therapeutics for diseases. If they get their way, they'll slow down — and potentially prevent — medical discoveries that could save millions of American lives.”

Read the full op-ed, which also ran on Yahoo News here: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/04/05/dont-monkey-around-life-saving-alzheimers-research-opinion/7245962001/