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Stanford University’s president investigated over research misconduct allegations

Stanford University’s president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, is the focus of an investigation alleging multiple manipulated images were included in at least four neurobiology papers that he co-authored.

The investigation was announced soon after The Daily, the university student newspaper, reported the allegations, which have been raised repeatedly over several years and most recently highlighted by Elizabeth Bik, a biologist who also investigates science misconduct.

The university’s Board of Trustees, which Tessier-Lavigne is a member of, is overseeing the investigation, but a Stanford spokeswoman confirmed that he “will not be involved in the Board of Trustees’ oversight of the review,” according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

In 2015, Tessier-Lavigne submitted corrections to Science, where two of the papers in question were published. Science, however, did not publish them “due to an error on our part,” the Chronicle confirmed.

The timeline for the investigation remains unclear.


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