✅ Xiaobing Zhang was suspended at FSU before coming to Rutgers
✅ He denied pain relief to 1,500 animals, according to the allegations
✅ Zhang was hired by Rutgers Medical School to start work Sept. 3
A newly hired Rutgers professor has been placed on paid leave after receiving a letter from an animal rights group that said he was barred from performing animal research for a year because he violated federal regulations.
Xiaobing Zhang is listed on the university website as an associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark.
The group Stop Animal Exploitation Now, in a detailed letter to Rutgers, said Florida State University advised the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare in March that Zhang did not provide a painkiller to mice after an operation. Zhang also instructed lab personnel to falsely report the post-operative analgesia had been administered…