Mark Tessier-Lavigne, hailed as the most distinguished employee of one of the most famous educational institutions in the United States, said on August 31 that he was resigning “for the good of the university”. It comes nearly nine months after a freshman reporter for the university’s newspaper, The Stanford Daily, reported that their principal’s former lab regularly manipulated neuroscience data that was then published in journals trusted by the scientific community.

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On Wednesday, Stanford’s board of trustees shared the findings of a months-long investigation into past research papers co-authored by Marc Tessier-Lavigne. The nearly 100-page research report examines 12 papers, five of which are lead authors, all written before coming to Stanford. in the report He concluded that the Stanford president was unaware of any data manipulation. and he was “not reckless” when he didn’t notice these manipulations.

• However, the commission noted that all 12 studies had “serious gaps in data presentation”.
• In one of the later widely cited 2001 studies, they were able to validate the “photoshopped data.”
• A few others found data copied from other scientific studies.
• The panel also dismissed claims that Tessier-Lavigne falsified data in a major Alzheimer’s study in 2009. That doesn’t mean the study didn’t have any problems, the report said, because the study lacked “the rigor expected of a job with such potential consequences.” This study and several others co-authored by the president of Stanford deserve rebuttal.

At various times when doubts arose about Tessier-Lavin’s articles […] Tessier-Lavin was unable to resolutely and clearly correct errors in scientific work,
– finished the commission.

This has been called one of the biggest cases of scientific neglect in recent years on behalf of an important figure in the science and biotechnology community. Tessier-Lavin accused other lab workers of manipulating research data.however, he stressed that he was “unaware of these problems”. “I agree that in some cases I should have been more diligent in requesting corrections and I’m sorry I wasn’t”said the scientist.

Tessier-Lavigne said it will work to retract three articles and correct the other two articles.