Meanwhile, university scientists and administrators around the United States continue to assess the impact of the six-year- long controversy leading to the Nobelist's fall from grace, not only on Rockefeller, but also on the research community at large.
Sources interviewed for this article generally agree that the university, now under new leadership, will recover from the negative publicity it received as the result of its association with Baltimore, an otherwise highly esteemed Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist. The university had named Baltimore as its president in mid-1990; only a year and a half later, he resigned, his reputation sullied as a result of his coauthorship and vigorous defense of a 1986 Cell paper that was deemed fraudulent.
Many academics agree that since the research in question did not occur at Rockefeller, the institution will have no trouble regaining its full stature. The univer- sity's impeccable reputation in the scientific community, they ...
