China’s Tongji University Punishes Top Cancer Researcher for Misconduct
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China’s Tongji University punishes top cancer researcher for misconduct
A top Chinese university has taken disciplinary action against its leading cancer researcher after finding academic misconduct in a 2025 Nature study. The study, which claimed that starving cancer cells of valine – a building block of proteins found in food – could trigger DNA damage and slow tumour growth, contained problematic data in 14 of its 15 figures, Shanghai-based Tongji University said in an official statement on Wednesday. The team, l…
Tongji University, a prestigious Chinese university, recently announced that Wang Ping, dean of the School of Life Sciences and Technology, was dismissed and demoted for failing to properly supervise and manage experimental data and paper quality. He, along with the first author of the paper, Jin Jiali, were also dismissed from their positions at the university's Institute for Advanced Study. This followed a report on April 9th by the science bl…
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