Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne has made his first major public statement, saying that he believed in the accuracy of contested data.
, former president of Rockefeller University who was also once chief scientific officer at Genentech, is nationally respected for his research into brain development and repair, especially the proteins that govern the growth of key nerve fibers in the developing spinal cord.
The people in the lab who are actually doing the work send the senior author their data. Or they sit down as a team, together, and review it. Then, before a paper is submitted to a journal, they go through it all again, to catch any errors. Tessier-Lavigne had also contacted the journal Cell in 2015 with concerns about the 1999 paper. At the time, Cell editors “evaluated the issues” and told Tessier-Lavigne “they did not think that further action was warranted,” according to a statement. The journal Cell has since opened its own review of the research.
Stanford’s Board of Trustees has assembled a special committee to investigate the claims. Its members include Jerry Yang of Yahoo; Carol C. Lam, general counsel at Qualcomm, Inc.; Jeffrey E. Stone, a senior partner at the international law firm McDermott Will & Emery, and James Coulter of the private equity giant TPG.
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