photo: Excerpts from the notification and Lorenzo Galassi / AP.
One of the biggest research scandals took place last year and this year at the Karolinska Institute. It took a long time before KI took notice of research misconduct seriously, accusations made against their own star surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. Already in 2014 reported four doctors his colleague for research fraud.
If this can be confirmed, it can only be construed as research misconduct and falsifying of data.
notification ended with a series of revelations, and several people in leadership positions had to resign, right up to the Nobel Assembly. As previously told SvD, as had several of the Assembly advocated the employment of the surgeon. And even though people in senior positions at KI knew that Macchiarini was suspected of a crime in Italy, then pressed it on a fast recruitment. In late March this year, however, Macchiarini fired.
Now raised the case again. The four doctors who reported Macchiarini 2014 has once again sent a report of suspected misconduct in research. They now want to Karolinska Institute explores more details in the article Macchiarini with research colleagues published in the prestigious journal The Lancet in 2011. In the article, a “proof of concept study”, a study of a method to display work, claims notifiers the images and date manipulation.
Patients in the study are the Eritrean student who traveled from Iceland to Sweden for a transplant of her trachea, an operation that made history. The man became the first in the world to get Macchiarinis artificial trachea transplant.
In the 14-page notification they write that Macchiarini and his research colleague “probably changed the dates of the radiological investigation”.
According to new data will these images have been tampered with. Photo: Excerpts from the report
According to doctors, Macchiarini and his colleague published tomographic images of the patient’s artificial trachea in the study. The pictures will show what the inside looked like after five months; “An almost normal functioning trachea,” writes Macchiarini in The Lancet.
We take seriously all allegations of misconduct in research and has made a first assessment of this notification.
But according to the complainants, that looked closely at the published images made by a radiologist at the Karolinska University hospital, the images may in fact be taken only four weeks after surgery.
“If this can be confirmed, it can only be construed as research misconduct and falsifying data,” writes the notifiers to KI.
the current article has previously been the focus of the KI hired externe reviewer. He had, however, asked to look at selected parts of the study. The images he has not reviewed, but he has heard of them.
– My investigation was basically to look at a number of statements in the study, and if things were wrong in this, says Bengt Gerdin, Professor at the Department of surgical Sciences, Uppsala University.
SvD have searched KI Acting President Karin Dahlman-Wright for comment without success. Replies will be written from the university’s press service.
“We take seriously all allegations of misconduct in research and has made a first assessment of this notification. It concerns an article that is already included in the ongoing investigation into Paolo Macchiarini where opinion will be sought from the Expert group on research misconduct at the Central Ethical Review Board. As an article reported for misconduct in research we collect the opinions of the author group, and this we do in this case. “
Central Ethical Review Board, CEPN , has taken note of the document. There awaits you now about the KI sign on, which is required to CEPN to investigate.
– We have not yet received any notification from KI, we act if they contact us in the matter, says administrative director Jorgen Svidén.
CEPN has previously two cases concerning Macchiarini at his table. One is an anonymous complaint regarding image manipulation submitted from KI, where images in the journal Biomaterials to have been falsified. Another case of animal experimentation in rats with matstrupar.
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