Top geneticist ‘should resign’ over his team’s laboratory fraud

Professor responsible for ‘reckless’ failure to properly oversee researchersA row over scientific fraud at the highest level of British academia has led to calls for one of the country ’s leading geneticists and highest-paid university chiefs to leave his posts.David Latchman, professor of genetics at University College London and master of Birkbeck, University of London – a post that earns him £380,000 a year – has angered senior academics by presiding over a laboratory that published fraudulent research, mostly on genetics and heart disease, for more than a decade. The number of fabricated results and the length of time over which the deception took place mad e the case one of the worst instances of research fraud uncovered in a British university.Continue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 1, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Tags: Research Genetics Birkbeck, University of London UCL (University College London) UK news Source Type: news