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Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday he will step down from that post next month following a probe of his past research as a neuroscientist.
Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne said on Wednesday he would resign from his post after a review by a panel of scientists concluded that research papers he contributed to contained “manipulation of research data,” according to a report released by a special university committee.
The president of Stanford University on Wednesday announced plans to resign after an investigation raised concerns about some of his scientific research.The panel was convened after the school newspaper, The Stanford Daily, raised concerns about the research last year.
Paolo Macchiarini misled the world over his breakthroughs in regenerative medicine, but why did most of the institutions that supported him bear no responsibility for hosting a rogue stem cell surgeon? It’s time for them to launch full and independent investigations, argue John Rasko and Carl Power By 2008 it looked like a medical revolution was under way. Before us lay a new world, where any injured organ could be replaced with one custom-made in the laboratory. Leading us there was the charismatic Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who’d begun replacing damaged windpipes with tissue eng...
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An investigation into Pruitt’s ‘research misconduct’ revealed he ‘engaged in data falsification and fabrication in several papers.’