Officer No. 2 suddenly resigned in the National Health Institutes of Health and retired from government service on Tuesday, in another sign that the Trump administration is reshaping public research and biological research institutions in the country.
Responsible, Dr. Lawrence a. TapakHe was a dentist and researcher, who is considered a fixed force, and he survived the past presidential transformations. In a message that Dr. Tabak sent to colleagues on Tuesday, he did not provide a reason for his decision. One of the persons familiar with the decision said that Dr. Tabak faced re -appointment, which he considered unacceptable.
“It was a huge privilege to work with each of you (and your wires) to support the task of the National Institutes of Health and its promotion.”
Dr. Tabak resigned at a turbulent time for institutes, which is the leading biomedical research industry in the country, which consists of 27 separate institutes and centers studying and developing treatments for diseases such as cancer and heart disease as well as infectious diseases such as AIDS and usual. The National Health Institutes spend approximately $ 48 billion annually on medical research, and many of them are given to medical centers, universities and hospitals throughout the country.
President Trump’s decision Reducing billions of dollars in Nih Grant Financing Driving a bitter court battle. On Wednesday, the Senate voted to enhance Robert F. Kennedy Junior, a skeptical vaccine and the president’s choice of the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, which oversees the national health institutes
Mr. Kennedy He said that he would reduce 600 jobs from the National Health Institutes.
The National Institutes of the National Institutes of the National Institutes said that it will soon obtain a statement on the decision of Dr. Tabak.
Dr. Tabak was not known to the public. But his decision to leave is surprising, and destabilize the political seat. He was seen as a person who could work through party lines; He survived the presidential transformations of both parties and indicated that it is expected to remain after the election of Mr. Trump in November.
Dr. Tabak usually went up to a position at the behavior of the Director of National Institutes of Health while moving from one administration to another. However, the Trump administration installed another researcher, Matthew Memoli of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as the Acting Director. Dr. Memalli criticized the states of the Kofid vaccine, as did Mr. Kennedy.
As a prosecutor for NIH last year, Dr. Tabak pushed back Against Republicans’ assurances that the laboratory leaking caused by research funded by the American tax motivation may have caused the Coronverus virus. He told legislators that the viruses that are studied in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, did not resemble those that led to the worst public health crisis in the world in a century.
Ellen Barry The reports contributed.
