Update (December 9): The Stanford board of trustees has brought on external counsel to lead the review of university president Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s research, according to a statement this week (December 7).
The European Molecular Biology Organization Journal is reviewing a study coauthored by Stanford University president and neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne, The Stanford Daily reported yesterday (November 29). The university’s board of trustees will also oversee an investigation into papers he’s coauthored that allegedly contain multiple manipulated images, a university spokesperson told The Chronicle of Higher Education later the same day.
Scientists have previously voiced concerns about several of Tessier-Lavigne’s papers on the website PubPeer. The flagged papers date back as far as 2001, and posts about potential errors in papers on which he is a coauthor go back at least seven years. Prominent scientific misconduct investigator Elisabeth Bik tells the Daily that the four papers of Tessier-Lavigne’s that she reviewed ...
