Whistleblower complaints by two former top National Institutes of Health officials offer their inside accounts of the Trump administration’s targeting of vaccine science at the world’s largest funder of biomedical research and the reach of Matthew Memoli, the agency’s deputy director, in enacting those policies.

The complaints were filed Thursday by the former directors of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and the Fogarty International Center, who claim they were illegally forced out of their jobs in retaliation for raising concerns about grant cancellations and increasing involvement from political appointees. They allege that the administration operated in a manner that was likely illegal in terminating wide swaths of grants to external researchers focusing on

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