"The challenge is going to be keeping pharma and the funders on board for another decade, " said Samuel Gandy, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Mount Sinai.
"For 80 percent of the common chemicals in everyday use in this country we know almost nothing about whether or not they can damage the brains of children, the immune system, the reproductive system, and the other developing organs, " said Dr. Phil Landrigan, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.