EU threatens to terminate TETRA Consortium funding for phase 2 trachea transplant trial
Martin Birchall is throat surgeon at the UCL in London and former partner of Paolo Macchiarini in their “pioneering” tracheaContinue Reading
Tag: Medicine
Research data integrity: words and deeds of Berlin’s head ophthalmologist
Note: the following post provoked a lawyer’s letter on behalf of Antonia Joussen, demanding its removal and a personal damageContinue Reading
The 3rd editor and failure of ‘proper channels’
A scientist finds serious measurement errors in three publications of his former collaborators. He alerts the journals and makes hisContinue Reading
The decadence of German medical doctorate
Germany is a country where a doctorate still invites respect and even deference, in certain circles at least. Here, the prefixContinue Reading
“Notification of Suspected Research Misconduct”, by 4 Macchiarini-whistleblowers
I am publishing a recent letter to the Vice-Chancellor of Karolinska Institutet (KI) Karin Dahlman-Wright, authored by the four KI medical researchers, Matthias Corbascio, Oscar Simonson, Karl-Henrik Grinnemo and Thomas Fux.
PLOS Correction removes (then reinstates) previously available anonymised patient clinical trial data
Researchers have removed the previously openly available anonymised patient data of the clinical trial FINE from their publication in PLOSContinue Reading
Chocolate is good for your funding
Chocolate is good for your health, scientists keep saying. This may sound counter-intuitive; given that chocolate is an extremely calorie-richContinue Reading
Sumitran-Holgersson’s funding frozen, paper retracted
The misconduct-tainted University of Gothenburg professor of transplantation biology Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson (see my detailed report here), has now lost aContinue Reading
Macchiarini’s patients, the real situation
Paolo Macchiarini, former star surgeon at Swedish Karolinska Insitutet (KI), came back to Sweden to give his version of theContinue Reading
Image integrity concerns in papers from a Pfizer lab
Image manipulations are unfortunately a rather widespread practice in biomedical literature, where a large part of research data in figuresContinue Reading
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