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The president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City has been slapped with a lawsuit by the University of Pennsylvania for allegedly failing to share intellectual property with the school. This doubles the legal trouble for former UPenn cancer researcher Craig Thompson, who was sued to the tune of $1 billion by the university-affiliated Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute for similar reasons last December.
The lawsuits allege that Thompson's improperly exploited research into cancer cell metabolism by helping to launch a pharmaceutical company, Agios, which filed for patents on the discoveries.
UPenn's beef with Thompson is that he "breached his fiduciary duty to the university" by "failing to disclose to the university research and discoveries," according to ScienceInsider. In ...
