An affiliate of Harvard Medical School plans to retract six studies and redact 31 papers because of an ongoing investigation into several senior cancer researchers and administrators, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The research includes more than 50 papers, four of which are co-authored by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute CEO and President Dr. Laurie Glimcher, seconds in the WSJ. The institute has not determined whether research misconduct occurred, although several requests for retractions and corrections have been sent to the journals.
The director of operations, Dr. William Hahn, Director of the Clinical Investigator Research Program, Dra. Irene Ghobrial, and Program Director of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, Dr. Kenneth Anderson, also have articles being investigated, according to the WSJ.
Sholto David, a molecular biologist, wrote a blog post in January that described signs of image manipulation in academic work by Harvard researchers, according to the WSJ. The institute also became aware of an unknown number of other jobs last year with possible problems, which it is reviewing.
“We were aware of many of these documents and their allegations before the blog was published,” Dr. Barrett Rollins, the institute's research integrity officer, told the WSJ.
Three articles criticized by David did not require corrections or retractions, according to the WSJ.
Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned on January 2 after several plagiarism allegations and a congressional hearing on December 5 where she rejected to say whether calling for the genocide of the Jews violated the school's code of conduct. Gai had approved a weakened plagiarism policy as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 2019, and this policy was later used to defend her
Harvard and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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