After a round of mass layoffs at UCSF Health earlier this year, the health care network has abruptly laid off more staff this month who were in charge of critical drug discoveries.
Among the cuts were researchers, associates, chemists, biologists and animal health technicians who were driving medical breakthroughs for fatal neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, the union that represents the workers, University Professional and Technical Employees, said in a news release.
Chey Dean, one of the laid-off staff researchers, told SFGATE that many of the life-saving drug discoveries in her lab were nearing Food and Drug Administration submission, and now she worries that the projects are “completely frozen.”…