NYU Strips Sackler Name From Biomedical Science Program

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The Sackler name -- now synonymous with the opioid epidemic -- is “inconsistent with our institution’s values,' the school said.

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name from its Graduate Biomedical Institute, a decision the school attributed to the family’s role in the ongoing opioid epidemic., manufacturer of the painkiller OxyContin. The drug generated billions of dollars for the Sacklers thanks in part to a marketing campaign that deliberately and severely downplayed OxyContin’s addictive qualities.with the Department of Justice and pleaded guilty to three federal criminal charges, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S.

In addition to the Graduate Biomedical Institute, the Sackler name will be removed from all other named programs at the school, Greiner said. “As soon as Purdue documents are released they will show the company’s history and that members of the Sackler family who served on the board of directors always acted ethically and lawfully,” Connolly said in an emailed statement, “so it is disappointing that NYU is rushing to judgment.”to scrub its Sackler-branded health sciences campus last December.in an interview

Numerous other medical institutes at universities and major cultural institutions still bear the Sackler name, including Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, Yale and the University of Cambridge.Paris’ Louvre Museum scrubbed the Sackler name from its walls last July.

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