Expert review: Macchiarini papers on plastic trachea transplants are misconduct
Bad times for the scandal surgeon Paolo Macchiarini and his acolyte Philipp Jungebluth. Misconduct findings led previously to retraction of anContinue Reading
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Macchiarini’s trachea transplant patients: the full list
This article lists all known (including those not officially declared) patients of the scandal surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who received from him a cadaveric or plastic trachea. It will be updated whenever I receive any new evidence.
Keziah’s deadly trachea transplant: UCL hospital’s secret
Keziah Shorten was a 19-year old teenager from England and officially Paolo Macchiarini 3rd patient receiving a cadaveric trachea transplant.Continue Reading
Bioethicist Arthur Caplan calls for retraction of all Macchiarini papers
Arthur Caplan, internationally respected professor of bioethics and director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the New York University,Continue Reading
Macchiarini leaves Russia: federal grant denied and Kazan lab shut down
Paolo Macchiarini is leaving Russia, his research and surgery stint there is over. The fallen star surgeon was able toContinue Reading
Ciaran’s success story
Trachea is a very difficult organ to transplant, because its blood supply happens through many tiny blood vessels and itContinue Reading
Updated: Retraction, and another looming misconduct finding for Macchiarini and Jungebluth
The misconduct-tainted paper on oesophagus transplants in rats (Sjöqvist et al 2014) by the fallen star of regenerative medicine Paolo Macchiarini isContinue Reading
The Kenneth Chien Case at Karolinska, by Johan Thyberg
This is a new guest post from Johan Thyberg, a retired professor for cell and molecular biology from Sweden, aContinue Reading
My Walles trachea transplant reporting fails peer review
My attempt recently to inform the readers of the journal Tissue Engineering Part A about grave omissions and factual inconsistenciesContinue Reading
The vexatious life-saving question of cadaveric tracheas
As we learned it from the Swedish documentary „Experimenten“, the scandal trachea surgeon Paolo Macchiarini didn’t much like to operateContinue Reading
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