Congressman Fattah's defeat in primary is loss for science community

Congressman Fattah’s defeat in primary is loss for science community

Representative Chaka Fattah (D–PA) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee in 2012. The research community lost a key supporter yesterday with the defeat of Representative Chaka Fattah (D–PA) in a Democratic primary race in his Philadelphia-area district. Fattah, who faces a federal trial next month for ethics transgressions, had a keen interest in neuroscience and helped catalyze the high-profile Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, a multiagency effort to study the brain. Fattah, 59, has represented a west Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, district for the past 22 years. He will go on trial in May on bribery and fraud charges involving misuse of a $1 million campaign loan when he ran for mayor of Philadelphia in 2007. Fattah has denied any wrongdoing, but his indictment contributed to his loss…


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