Patty Murray
23:25 - 24:05
“a planned study on RSV missed its enrollment window and could not even enroll participants. Another clinical trial closed after it took 6 months to hire a researcher. The study's principal investigator and its lead clinician both resigned from the VA after that debacle.”
- Speaker
- Patty Murray
- Timestamp
- 23:25 – 24:05
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- July 22, 2026
From the transcript
Researchers are reporting to us that the time to hire a new member of their staff now often takes up to 6 months. As a result, a planned study on RSV missed its enrollment window and could not even enroll participants. Another clinical trial closed after it took 6 months to hire a researcher. The study's principal investigator and its lead clinician both resigned from the VA after that debacle. VA researchers are not only being undermined by delays and cuts at the department, but also by instability and cuts at other federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health, which frequently provides funding for our VA researchers.
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