FDA Official With Oversight of Musk’s Neuralink Devices Fired

An official who oversees a team at the Food and Drug Administration that reviews Neuralink Corp. devices was fired, according to an email the agency sent to staff Tuesday morning viewed by Bloomberg.

Ross Segan, who was formerly the director of the Office of Product Evaluation and Quality at the FDA’s medical device center, was one of thousands of employees fired across the US Department of Health and Human Services in recent days.

The firings, some of which hit the device division, followed an executive order last week directing agencies to reduce their workforces in line with the goals of ...