Stanford University Presidentis facing an internal investigation around allegations that a 2008 paper he co-authored contained altered images.
The Daily first reported the allegations Tuesday. After the story appeared, Stanford acknowledged it had started an investigation, which could take weeks or years to complete. Tessier-Lavigne, a well-regarded neuroscience researcher, was executive vice president of research drug discovery at South San Francisco-based Genentech Inc. He co-founded neuroscience drug developer Denali Therapeutics Inc. of South San Francisco and was president of Rockefeller University in New York before becoming Stanford's 11th president in 2016.
Over the past decade, the federal Office of Research Integrity and colleges have found that principal investigators, or PIs, overseeing research can be cited for being"reckless" in oversight of work done by others in their lab, said, a Washington, D.C., attorney who has represented hundreds of scientists and institutions against research misconduct allegations as part of the law firm Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC.