美国各大媒体都报道了斯坦福大学校长辞职的消息。
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/us/stanford-president-resigns-tessier-lavigne.html
Following months of intense scrutiny of his scientific work, Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday (July 19, 2023) that he would resign as president of Stanford University after an independent review of his research found significant flaws in studies he supervised going back decades.
The review, conducted by an outside panel of scientists, refuted the most serious claim involving Dr. Tessier-Lavigne's work - that an important 2009 Alzheimer's study falsified data and that Dr. Tessier-Lavigne had covered it up.
But the review also stated that the 2009 study, conducted while he was an executive at the biotech company Genentech, had "multiple problems" and "fell below customary standards of scientific rigor and process," especially for such a potentially important paper.
As a result of the review, Dr. Tessier-Lavigne was expected to request substantial corrections in the 2009 paper, published in Nature, as well as another Nature study. He also said he would request retraction of a 1999 paper that appeared in the journal Cell and two others that appeared in Science in 2001.
Dr. Tessier-Lavigne will relinquish the presidency at August 31 but remain at the university as a tenured professor of biology. The university named Richard Saller, a professor of European studies, as interim president, effective September 1.
The Stanford panel's 89-page report, based on more than 50 interviews and a review of more than 50,000 documents, concluded that members of Dr. Tessier-Lavigne's labs engaged in inappropriate manipulation of research data or deficient scientific practices, resulting in significant flaws in five papers that listed Dr. Tessier-Lavigne as the principal author.
In several instances, the panel found, Dr. Tessier-Lavigne took insufficient steps to correct mistakes, and it questioned his decision not to seek a correction in the 2009 paper after follow-up studies revealed that its key finding was wrong.
The flaws cited by the panel involved a total of 12 papers, including seven in which Dr. Tessier-Lavigne was listed as co-author.
Genentech had touted the 2009 study as a breakthrough, with Dr. Tessier-Lavigne characterizing the findings during a presentation to Genentech investors as a completely new and different way of looking at the Alzheimer's disease process.
As has been the case with many new theories in Alzheimer's, a central finding of the study was found to be incorrect. Following several years of attempts to duplicate the results, Genentech ultimately abandoned the line of inquiry.
The accusations against Dr. Tessier-Lavigne, 63, had first surfaced years ago on PubPeer, an online crowdsourcing site for publishing and discussing scientific work.
But they resurfaced after the student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, published a series of articles questioning the work produced in laboratories overseen by Dr. Tessier-Lavigne. In November, The Stanford Daily reported claims that images were manipulated in published papers listing Dr. Tessier-Lavigne as either lead author or co-author.
In February, The Stanford Daily published more serious claims of fraud involving the 2009 paper that Dr. Tessier-Lavigne published while a senior scientist at Genentech. It said an investigation by Genentech found that the study contained falsified data, and that Dr. Tessier-Lavigne tried to keep its findings hidden.
Tessier-Lavigne has been president of Stanford University for nearly seven years.
https://apnews.com/article/stanford-president-marc-tessier-lavigne-resigns-083350499581584408f497c91a159de1
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/stanford-university-president-marc-tessier-lavigne-announces-resignati-rcna95141
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