Texas med center to lay off 3,800

A day after dedicating a new facility for linkurl:pathogen research,;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55166/ the University of Texas-Galveston Medical Branch in Galveston announced yesterday (November 13) it will lay off roughly one-third of its workforce because of financial woes caused by damage from Hurricane Ike, which hit the region in September. The majority of the 3,800 employees expected to be let go by mid-January will be hospital employees, not researchers, according to Matt