Stanford president will step down after questions about research

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Breaking news: Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne has announced he will resign after a report found he had failed to correct mistakes in years-old scientific papers and overseen labs that had an “unusual frequency” of manipulations of data.

The dramatic fall from the top of one of the world’s most respected research institutions followed a months-long inquiry prompted by allegations of research misconduct.concluded that Tessier-Lavigne, a neuroscientist who has been president of Stanford for nearly seven years, did not engage in any fraud or falsification of scientific data. It also did not find evidence that he was aware of problems before publication of data.

Tessier-Lavigne said Wednesday that he would ask for three papers to be retracted and two corrected. A panel of prominent scientists, engaged by a special committee of the private university’s board of trustees, examined a dozen of the more than 200 papers published during his career. Tessier-Lavigne, who was named president of Stanford in 2016, is known for research that includes causes and treatments of neural degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. He will remain at Stanford as a tenured professor in the biology department.

 

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