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2014/08/26
The Boston Globe August 12, 2014: Brigham researcher in flawed stem cell study will step down
A Boston researcher who oversaw a discredited study that described a simple method for creating stem cells will step down from his position as chairman of the anesthesiology department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and take a one-year sabbatical.
In a statement, the hospital said that Dr. Charles A. Vacanti intends to step down Sept. 1; he will remain on the faculty and return to research after the sabbatical.
A hospital spokeswoman said Tuesday that Vacanti’s decision was not related to the furor that has surrounded the stem cell method that originated from his research. In a letter Vacanti wrote to colleagues posted on the blog of Paul Knoepfler, a stem cell scientist at the University of California Davis, there is no mention of the flawed research. more, 中文