Trump administration fires workers at NIH's Alzheimer's research center, including incoming director
Source: ABC News
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.
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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.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-fires-workers-nihs-alzheimers-research-center/story?id=119053406
And again, termination letters cited poor job performance even though employees had received excellent reviews, which is obviously a ploy to avoid paying unemployment.
Meanwhile RFK Jr. said he wants the NIH to shift its focus away from infectious disease and instead concentrate on chronic diseases. Well gee, then why in hell are they firing people who are working on Alzheimer's?
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