美军方病理所24名科学家集体辞职下海

　　

生物通报道，美国军方病理学研究所（Armed Forces Institute of Pathology，AFIP）超过24名病理学家辞去职务，另起炉灶建立了一个全新的公司，提供AFIP的专业病理学咨询服务。

 

AFIP是一个有150年历史的研究所，对外提供病理咨询服务。据报道，联邦政府将在2011年关闭这所150年历史的研究所。

 

而目前离开AFIP的科学家多达24位以上，他们组建的公司原本命名为：AFIP实验室，现在他们一改初衷，重新命名为：American International Pathology（AIP）实验室，总部位于马里兰的Sliver Spring，该公司将于下月开张。

 

AFIP前研究员Evans Farmer任该公司总裁，Evans在接受华盛顿邮报的采访时表示，开设新公司的目的是给AFIP的科学家提供一个新的工作地点。

 

而AFIP的官方发言人表示，国会已经安排了一个新的病理学研究中心来接收AFIP关闭后留下的科学家。

（生物通  小茜）

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More than two dozen pathologists have left the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in Washington, D.C., to form a new company that will offer the same pathology consultation services as the 150-year-old institute.

 

AFIP is expected to close by 2011 under a federal plan to shut down several military bases around the country including the Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus, where AFIP is located. The company, which originally called itself AFIP Laboratories and has renamed itself American International Pathology (AIP) Laboratories following a protest from institute officials, will be headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, and will begin operations next month.

 

Evan Farmer, the director of the company and a former AFIP fellow, told The Washington Post that the company's goal is to provide a new home for the institute's expertise. But AFIP officials say that a new Congressionally-mandated Joint Pathology Center, administered by the Department of Defense, will replace the institute after its closure.