NIH Leader Demoted After Research Misconduct Probe: PETA Statement

For Immediate Release:
September 26, 2024

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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Please see the following statement from PETA neuroscientist and former National Institutes of Health (NIH) researcher Dr. Katherine Roe regarding Eliezer Masliah, M.D., now the former director of the National Institute on Aging’s neuroscience division. He was demoted after NIH found evidence of his research misconduct while serving the agency.

Eliezer Masliah is the latest in a string of high-level, federally funded animal experimenters caught engaging in research misconduct. As with so many others, he was paid to perform invasive and deadly experiments on animals—and fabricated his research findings, which not only harms and kills animals but also misleads the scientific community, delays medical advances, and potentially puts human lives at risk. Animal-based “models” of human disease are already a failing paradigm due to their poor translatability and reproducibility, and with so many animal experimenters being caught for faking their data, it’s time to shut the ineffective and fraudulent animal experimentation industry down completely.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.