• WCW’s new investigation reveals the National Institutes of Health (NIH) wasted $1,700,000 for devastating experiments on cats.
• The NIH has been funding a collaboration between Georgia Tech and Russian labs to amputate the limbs of healthy animals, replace their limbs with prosthetics, electroshock their muscles, and force them to walk on treadmills.
• The cats endure this tax-funded torture for over two years before white coats kill and dispose of them.
• WCW has been exposing similar NIH-funded cat abuse at Georgia Tech since 2022, revealing their ties to Putin’s kitten lab.
• The NIH is the country’s single largest funder of cruel cat testing and WCW is working to pass the bipartisan PAAW Act to defund it.
• No other animal protection organization has shut down federal feline labs in 40 years.

The National Institutes of Health, Georgia Tech, and Russia have a truly dishonorable history of collaboration.

In 2022, White Coat Waste Project exposed and then ended a Georgia Tech scheme that shipped $770,000 in taxpayer funds from the NIH to a Kremlin-tied Russian lab that severed cats’ spinal cords and forced them to walk on treadmills.

To make matters worse, WCW discovered that Georgia Tech’s Russian partner conducted this cat torture illegally. The Pavlov Institute of Physiology did not have US Government approval to conduct taxpayer-funded animal experiments, and Georgia Tech was cited for improperly collaborating with them.

Now, WCW’s newest investigation revealed that Georgia Tech and Russian government labs have mutilated cats and forced them to perform locomotion tasks on multiple occasions, using multi-millions of taxpayer dollars to do so.

In a series of lethal experiments, NIH-funded white coats sawed off the legs of healthy cats, replacing them with experimental prosthetic limbs anchored to the bone, and (if they recover from the implantation) observing the crippled cats attempt to walk.

Real victims from an NIH-funded lab after their amputation and implantation surgery

In some cases, white coats implant wires and metal electrodes in the cats’ bodies and electroshock their muscles as they‘re forced to walk on treadmills.

These amputations have resulted in several complications in cats– and are often performed in vain. The process used by white coats in one experiment was so ineffective that only one of the eight cats received a successful implantation.

The disfigured victims endure this torture for over 2 years; and after white coats are done with them, they are all killed.

Cats are not the only victims of this tax-funded torture. Baby pigs are also being disfigured on the NIH’s dime; on US soil and in Russian laboratories.

Your tax bill? Over $1,700,000.

Is this how you want your money spent?

WCW is on a mission to get the government out of the cat testing business. We’re leading national efforts to expose and close down U.S. government cat labs, like our historic victories to defund all of the VA’s cat abuse and our successful efforts to shut down USDA’s Kitten Slaughterhouse and Fauci’s Kitten Slaughterhouse 2.0.

Up next? Ending NIH’s wasteful cat torture at Georgia Tech and in Russian labs. You can help.