Harvard’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to retract multiple papers after blogger alleges data fabrication

Harvard University’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston is to retract six research articles and ask for corrections of 31 more, many of them by its senior leaders, after a blogger raised concerns about image manipulation.Sholto David, 32, a molecular biologist based in Pontypridd, Wales, highlighted apparently duplicated images from 30 articles in a 2 January guest post on the website For Better Science.1 The articles’ lead authors were four prominent Dana-Farber scientists, including the institute’s chief executive, Laurie Glimcher, and its chief operating officer, William Hahn.The papers spanned the past two decades and appeared in influential journals including Blood, Cancer Research, Cell, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Nature, PLoS ONE, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Science.David passed on findings concerning 58 studies to the institute. The institute will request retractions of six papers and corrections of 31 more, said Dana-Farber’s research integrity officer Barrett Rollins in a…
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