hotspot -WSS

hotspot

author：explore 2025-10-01 18:44:18 - browse：7823

The sign of University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas in front of the Sheikh Zayed Building — coverage from STAT — Adobe

Early last year, MD Anderson Cancer Center leadership had a problem on their hands: a contentious dispute between one of its most powerful researchers and a junior scientist over authorship, credit, and charges of verbal abuse. High-ranking officials at the cancer center tried — and failed — to resolve the feud, and documents obtained by STAT shed new light on the deep divisions at the heart of this case.

The Texas cancer center outsourced assessing the conflict between early-career nephrologist Jamie Lin and leading oncologist Padmanee Sharma to the law firm Ropes & Gray. The firm investigated the authorship and scientific credit portions of the dispute and concluded that Sharma was likely responsible for a scientific hypothesis at the heart of the feud and should be named as a co-senior author on a key manuscript.

But a separate investigation, commissioned by Lin and conducted by a former official at the federal Office of Research Integrity, tells a somewhat different story. That review looked into plagiarism after Sharma claimed Lin had wrongly omitted the senior researcher as an author from a manuscript built on research to which Sharma contributed. But this second investigation found no evidence of plagiarism between two manuscripts submitted to the journals Cancer Immunology Research and Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight.

Lin provided STAT with copies of an executive summary of the Ropes & Gray investigation as well as the conclusions of the plagiarism investigation. These documents are alluded to in legal filings but have not been previously reported. Lin has filed a lawsuit against Sharma in the Harris County District Court alleging retaliation, harassment, threatening, and intellectual theft by Sharma; she’s also asking for $5 million in damages.

Get unlimited access to award-winning journalism and exclusive events.

Subscribe Log In

Previous article： Anesthesiologist group: stop taking Ozempic before surgery
Next article： Readers discuss the intersection of pregnancy and addiction

WSS

Listen: Biogen's situation, Wegovy's risks, & biotech insider trading

Infectious disease expert Jeanne Marrazzo assumes Fauci role

Statins may not be needed by millions of people, study suggests

Stephen Quake on the Chan Zuckerberg quest to conquer disease

Wildfire pollution widens asthma inequities on Long Island

ALS patient reclaims some autonomy thanks to wearable 'robot'

hotspot

hotspot

hotspot

New air purifier tech could be key to improving indoor air quality

Adults seen as increasingly susceptible to measles

Trump demands the U.S. pay no more for drugs than other countries … again

Statins may not be needed by millions of people, study suggests

In Memoriam: Notable people who died in 2023

Heat wave can put hearts into ‘oxygen debt,' lab experiment shows

Guidelines to prevent youth baseball injuries need more muscle

Tire on Delta flight pops while landing in Atlanta, 1 person injured, airline says

Bright Health sells Medicare Advantage business to Molina

No plane should take off without an EpiPen onboard

entertainment

Infectious disease expert Jeanne Marrazzo assumes Fauci role

How faith leaders like me can help address America's obesity epidemic

Micronoma's microbiome cancer diagnostic approach under fire

5 takeaways from STAT's examination of Zynex Medical

Scientists inch closer to single

Curing rare childhood diseases will falter unless Congress steps up

leisure time

focus

entertainment

knowledge