In an open letter, Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne acknowledged concerns have been raised about his research papers. Meanwhile, the university has launched an investigation.
in 2008. In his open letter, Stanford's president didn't specifically address the concerns raised about that paper.it's formed a special committee to investigate the allegations against Tessier-Lavigne. On Wednesday, board chair Jerry Yang and Carol Lam, who is chairing the special committee, announced the committee has hired former federal judge Mark Filip and Kirkland & Ellis, Filip's firm, to review the president's work.."We will move expeditiously but thoroughly.
The allegations about Tessier-Lavigne's papers comes amid growing scrutiny of the images used in scientific papers and that many researchers are falsifying data through image manipulation — duplicating images, rotating them, flipping them or taking other such steps.. Allegations of research misconduct are typically handled behind closed doors out of concern for researchers' reputations. Such charges are among the most serious that can be levied against scientists, not only for the impact on their reputations but because government funding is often on the line.
Tessier-Lavigne has long been a well-regarded researcher in the neuroscience field. Prior to becoming Stanford's president in 2016, he was executive vice president of research drug discovery at South San Francisco-based Genentech Inc. He also co-founded neuroscience drug developer Denali Therapeutics Inc. in South San Francisco and was president of Rockefeller University in New York.
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