A Harvard Corporation subordinate and a erstwhile Harvard provost volition assistance analyse Stanford’s president for imaginable world misconduct successful diary articles helium co-authored, a Stanford peculiar committee announced past week.
Steven E. Hyman, who served for a decennary as Harvard’s provost from 2001 to 2011, and Shirley M. Tilghman, a erstwhile Princeton president who present serves connected Harvard's highest governing body, the Harvard Corporation, volition service connected a five-person technological sheet investigating Stanford President Marc T. Tessier-Lavigne.
Tessier-Lavigne has been an writer connected astatine slightest 4 neuroscience papers that allegedly incorporate manipulated images. The Stanford Daily first reported allegations of world misconduct against Tessier-Lavigne successful November 2022.
Stanford claims Tessier-Lavigne was informed of the allegations successful 2015 and attempted to close them, and that the images person nary bearing connected the papers’ findings. Experts — and the diary Science, which published 1 of the papers — disagree, the Daily reported.
Hours aft the Daily published its report, the Stanford Board of Trustees announced that a peculiar committee would analyse the allegations. In December, the peculiar committee said that Mark R. Filip, a erstwhile national justice and erstwhile U.S. lawman lawyer wide who present works with the instrumentality steadfast Kirkland & Ellis, would pb the investigation.
Last week, Carol C. Lam, a Stanford trustee and the peculiar committee’s chairperson, announced that Filip, a Harvard Law School alum, had convened a technological sheet to assistance him. Some of the nation’s apical neuroscientists and biologists, including Hyman and Tilghman, volition service connected the five-person body.
A spokesperson for the peculiar committee wrote successful an emailed connection that sheet members were selected for their probe integrity expertise, world publishing experience, and estimation among scientists.
Though scientists astatine the panel’s level of acquisition are apt acquainted with Tessier-Lavigne and his work, Filip and the committee are assured that the panelists volition support impartiality, the spokesperson added.
A Stanford trustee, Felix J. Baker, antecedently stepped down from the peculiar committee aft the Daily reported that helium had a fiscal involvement successful Tessier-Lavigne’s biotech company.
Hyman, a prof of stem compartment and regenerative biology, led the National Institute of Mental Health from 1996 to 2001 and served arsenic Harvard’s provost betwixt 2001 and 2011. As provost, Hyman developed galore interfaculty initiatives and helped make the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology.
During Hyman’s tenure arsenic provost, respective Harvard professors faced challenges to the world integrity of their work. Most notably, erstwhile science prof Marc D. Hauser resigned successful 2011 aft the Faculty of Arts and Sciences found him responsible for world misconduct successful 3 published articles.
Other allegations of world misconduct during Hyman’s tenure included charges of plagiarism against erstwhile Harvard School of Public Health assistant prof Ali A. Sultan successful 2004 and erstwhile Harvard Medical School professor Lee S. Simon successful 2009, some of whom resigned pursuing the allegations. During Hyman's tenure, erstwhile HMS prof and Nobel laureate Linda B. Buck besides retracted 3 world papers, including 1 featuring probe conducted astatine Harvard.
Tilghman, who was president of Princeton from 2001 to 2013, is simply a renowned molecular biologist who chaired the committee that reviewed Harvard’s beingness sciences programme and besides served connected a committee that advised then-Dean of Radcliffe College Drew G. Faust arsenic it became the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study. Tilghman was elected to the Harvard Corporation successful 2015.
The panel’s technological valuation is ongoing, the merchandise from the peculiar committee said. There is nary circumstantial deadline for the completion of their work, according to a committee spokesperson.
Along with Hyman and Tilghman, the sheet besides includes Scripps College neuroscience prof Hollis T. Cline, Duke psychiatry and neurobiology prof Kafui Dzirasa, and University of California, Berkeley prof Randy W. Schekman — the recipient of a 2013 Nobel Prize successful physiology oregon medicine.
Hyman and Tilghman did not instantly respond to requests for comment.
—Staff writer Rahem D. Hamid tin beryllium reached astatine rahem.hamid@thecrimson.com.
—Staff writer Elias J. Schisgall tin beryllium reached astatine elias.schisgall@thecrimson.com. Follow him connected Twitter @eschisgall.
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