STAT+: ‘It was my call’: Stanford president defends decision not to correct key paper in misconduct investigation
Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne took responsibility for the decision not to correct or retract a paper at the heart of scientific-misconduct allegations.
Amid an investigation of alleged research misconduct, Stanford University’s president took responsibility in an email to STAT for the decision not to correct or retract a paper at the heart of the controversy and defended his actions.
That decision concerned a major study published in the journal Nature in 2009 and co-authored by Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the university’s president and a renowned neuroscientist who at the time was a top researcher at the biotech company Genentech.
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