FDA Employees Terminated in Mass Layoffs Had Been Overseeing Elon Musk's Neuralink Trial: Report

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U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) employees overseeing Elon Musk's Neuralink clinical trials were abruptly terminated over the weekend as part of a broader government workforce purge, according to a report.

Neuralink's research is highly regulated by the FDA, particularly its Office of Neurological and Physical Medicine Devices, which oversees clinical-trial applications for experimental brain implants, Reuters reported.