// PERSON
Sylvio Masliah
ROLE FORMER HEAD OF NEUROSCIENCE DIVISION, NIAMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN APRIL 29, 2026
// BIO
Former head of the NIA's neuroscience division whose research fraud allegedly caused billions in misallocated Alzheimer's and Parkinson's clinical trial funding.
// RECENT MENTIONS
// SIGNALS
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mention·The a16z Show·APRIL 29, 2026
“He basically led to the misallocation of billions of dollars in money that went to like clinical trials and all this stuff... Tons of people spent time trying to replicate his stuff and it just did not work. So we went down like a tech tree that shouldn't exist.”
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