Expansive investigation into Stanford president’s past research will be ‘substantially complete’ by mid-July
An investigation by a special committee of Stanford’s board of trustees into alleged scientific misconduct by Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the university’s president and a prominent neuroscientist, has involved “hundreds of hours” of meetings and witness interviews” and will be “substantially complete” by mid-July, the panel said Sunday.
The announcement, which was posted on the committee’s website, is the first update since February concerning an ongoing probe into concerns raised by the Stanford Daily, the student newspaper, and data experts around studies co-authored by Tessier-Lavigne. As a result of these concerns, the university’s board of trustees retained a former federal judge and the law firm Kirkland & Ellis to lead an investigation, aided by an outside panel of five leading scientists.
