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| Marc Trevor Tessier Lavigne. |
63-year-old Mark. Tessier-Lavigne, a Canadian-born neuroscientist, has been president of the prestigious institution since 2016. He said that he will no longer serve as the principal on August 31, but he will still stay on campus to teach and do research. It is reported that Professor of European Studies Richard. Richard Saller will take over as interim principal on September 1.
Tessier-Lavigne's alleged academic misconduct scandal was first kicked off by the Stanford University journal "Stanford Daily". Beginning in 2022, the school newspaper published a series of long articles questioning Tessier-Lavigne's research, claiming that the pictures in at least four research papers it co-authored had been tampered with, which subsequently attracted the attention of many media. Stanford University then convened a team led by former federal judge Phillips and five scientists to investigate Tessier-Lavigne's paper starting in late November. The team examined more than 50,000 documents, analysis by forensic image experts, dozens of interviews and correspondence with scientific journals.
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| University of Stanford, California. |
Experimental Data Cannot Be Replicated To Expose Fraud
Ultimately, the panel issued an investigative report stating that of the 12 papers written or co-authored by Tessier-Lavigne, at least four papers were "clearly manipulated by others" and another paper "fatal shortcomings were observed in the data of research." We devised to withdraw three and rectify the other two papers- says Tessier Lavigne
However, the panel's investigation report also stated that "there is no evidence that Tessier-Lavigne knew or intentionally manipulated the research data," but found that he failed to promptly and decisively discover and correct data errors in the paper, and he also had omissions in his supervision of laboratories at multiple institutions.
In response, Tessier-Lavigne announced that he would retract three of the five articles mentioned above, request significant corrections to two of them, and resign as president. In his resignation statement, he stated that he was "unaware that other people in the laboratory manipulated research data" and that he would be responsible for the work of laboratory members. At the same time, he also admitted that he should have worked harder to correct mistakes, "but unfortunately I did not".
Tessier-Lavigne is mainly engaged in research on the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and spinal cord injuries, focusing on Alzheimer's disease (commonly known as Alzheimer's disease), Parkinson's disease and other brain diseases. His research has been published in journals such as Nature, Cell and Science.
One of the most notable papers, published in the journal Nature in 2009 when he was the chief scientific officer of Genentech, a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical company Roche, involved research on the Alzheimer's disease DR6 protein, which is the cause of Alzheimer's disease. On this basis, Genentech launched three years of research on new treatment methods, but in the end it failed because the data could not be replicated. A Genentech research review board had earlier conducted an internal investigation into the paper and found evidence of data falsification.
Harvard Also Blasted Academic Data Falsification Earlier
This is the second academic misconduct scandal in a well-known American university in recent months. Last month, Harvard Business School behavioral scientist Francesca G. Francesca Gino, who was charged with fabricating data in a research paper she co-authored, was placed on administrative leave. This month, Harvard Business School requested that three of Gino's academic papers be retracted after several data researchers raised evidence of fraud in four research papers Gino co-authored in a blog post earlier in June.
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