Stanford is investigating its own president over research misconduct allegations
Good evening! Twitter is still devolving into chaos, and my Substack experiment begins/continues. Here’s a scoop from me tonight:
Stanford University’s board of trustees is overseeing an investigation into the university’s president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, over allegations that neurobiology papers that he co-authored contain multiple manipulated images, a university spokeswoman told The Chronicle on Tuesday night.
… The situation is highly unusual, given that Tessier-Lavigne, who was named Stanford’s president in 2016, is a member of the board now charged with investigating him. Mostofi said that Tessier-Lavigne “will not be involved in the Board of Trustees’ oversight of the review.”
…In a statement provided by Stanford, Tessier-Lavigne said, “Scientific integrity is of the utmost importance both to the university and to me personally. I support this process and will fully cooperate with it, and I appreciate the oversight by the Board of Trustees.”
For more context, read the deeply reported investigation in The Stanford Daily (published earlier this morning) that kick-started all of this. And you can click here to read my full story in The Chronicle. (If you have questions about how to access it, you can let me know by replying to this email.)
Until next time!