University of Gothenburg Moves to Fire Professor for Misconduct

An investigation finds regenerative medicine researcher Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson manipulated data in seven papers.

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The University of Gothenburg has taken steps to remove Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson from her post as a professor there, after an investigation concluded that she manipulated images in seven out of 10 papers.

“[T]he Vice-Chancellor decided that the professor was guilty of research misconduct by deliberately neglecting good scientific practice,” according to a press release from the university published June 26. All of Sumitran-Holgersson’s coauthors were cleared from responsibility for the tampered images. According to Retraction Watch, two of the papers have been retracted so far.

The conclusion by the university comes after an investigation by Sweden’s Central Ethical Review Board determined in March that eight of Sumitran-Holgersson’s papers were problematic.

In addition to figure manipulation, Sumitran-Holgersson was found previously to have violated medical ethics when she failed to get approval before she recruited three children for an experimental procedure that involved vein transplants seeded with the patients’ own cells, For ...

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    Kerry Grens

    Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021. Before joining The Scientist in 2013, she was a stringer for Reuters Health, the senior health and science reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia, and the health and science reporter at New Hampshire Public Radio. Kerry got her start in journalism as a AAAS Mass Media fellow at KUNC in Colorado. She has a master’s in biological sciences from Stanford University and a biology degree from Loyola University Chicago.

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