Saturday, February 13, 2016

Investigation of research misconduct again – Aftonbladet

Research. New data on surgeon Paolo Macchiarinis operations and research, including on suspicious image manipulations, makes KI now open investigation of research misconduct again.

Meanwhile, Vice Chancellor Anders Hamsten announces his resignation.

the new data claim that the famous surgeon should have cheated in experiments with rats in the two reports. The same images appear to have been used several times, both in the same publication and in various publications.

– The same article reported the same pictures in various trials, it is what makes that there are strong suspicions that it is not right, says Jan Carlstedt-Duke, Professor and Vice-Chancellor at the Karolinska Institute.

“untenable position”

But it is not just this that contributes to KI reopening an investigation regarding Macchiarini. There has also been new information about the operation that the surgeon performed on the Island – the first in which a patient had a plastic throat surgery. An intervention was the basis for some of Macchiarinis scientific articles.

– We have analyzed it further and it has come up more and more data that really shows that the image we got the opinions of the Icelandic health care did not correspond with the image we have today. In particular, it is about the postoperative course during the time from surgery to basically when the Lancet article was published, says Carlstedt-Duke.

TT: How passports contributor is the new data to Hamsten now resign?

– it was not the main reason, was the unsustainable situation that arose. It has been driven so hard that it was impossible for him to work with KI’s development.



Nothing Nobel Prize

In an article in today’s DN announces Hamsten he leaves his place to disposal, as confidence in him as the president is damaged:

“the choir that require my departure is so many-headed and strident that I realize that it is difficult for me to credibility and force to act as principal for the most successful University “.

Hamsten will now leave the CI’s Board of Directors as well as its place on the board of the Karolinska University hospital. DN writes that he was at his own request will not participate in the Nobel Assembly’s efforts to appoint the medicine laureates come.

Vice Rector Karin Dahlman-Wright goes in and takes over Hamsten data until the government appointed a new rector.

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