FLICKR, SHINYA SUZUKI Inder Verma, a renowned cancer biologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been placed on leave as editor-in-chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) as of Monday this week (January 1).
The move is linked to three gender discrimination lawsuits that were filed by Salk professors Vicky Lundblad, Katherine Jones, and Beverly Emerson in July 2017, Verma tells The San Diego Union-Tribune. Emerson told Science last July that the world-leading institute was a “hostile environment in which [the women were] undermined, disrespected, disparaged, and treated unequally.”
In one of the lawsuits, Lundblad alleges that Verma was one of the leaders at Salk who had been dismissive of female scientists, Science reports.
Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, a molecular biologist who has been the president of Salk since 2015, has said that the allegations are false, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. However, the lawsuit filed by Emerson alleges that Blackburn was one of Salk’s leaders who had ...
