Uncategorized - May 24, 2022
Prosecutors urge jail term for Macchiarini
The prosecutors in the Paolo Macchiarini trial asked the court on Monday for at least five years in prison for the surgeon. Macchiarini went on trial April 27 in Sweden charged with aggravated assault, 11 years after he first performed experimental transplants of synthetic windpipes on patients. The trial has centered on three transplants Macchiarini […]
Uncategorized - April 1, 2016
Karolinska Institutet dismisses Macchiarini
The Staff Disciplinary Board at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to relieve Paolo Macchiarini of his duties as a researcher at KI. He is to be informed immediately that his contract has been rescinded. Paolo Macchiarini has engaged in conduct and research that is incompatible with a position of employment at KI. His dismissal is […]
Uncategorized - March 6, 2016
Government requests renewal of KI board
The Swedish government announced its decision yesterday, 3 March, to task a nomination committee with submitting proposals for new members of the Karolinska Institutet University Board. The government is to appoint former university chancellor Lars Haikola onto the nomination committee, which will be submitting a list of proposed external candidates to recruit onto the KI […]
Uncategorized - February 8, 2016
The secretary general of the Nobel Assembly resign
The Paolo Macchiarini scandal at the Karolinska Institutet has prompted Urban Lendahl, secretary general of the Nobel Assembly, to resign. Lendahl, a developmental geneticist at KI, was involved in hiring Macchiarini in 2010. A statement from the Nobel Committee yesterday said that Lendahl expected to be involved in the investigation and was giving up his work on […]
Uncategorized - February 5, 2016
Macchiarini dismissed from Karolinska Institutet
Yesterday the Principal of Karolinska Institutet decided not to prolong professor Macchiarini’s employment when it ends in November 2016. The Head of the institution where Macchiarini belonged has been assigned to make sure that the working hours that he has left is spent on dismantling the research he has performed at the Karolinska Institute. He […]
Clinical Trials - January 28, 2016
Regenerative medicine researcher accused of misconduct
A surgeon previously operating at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm has performed unauthorised operations and is suspected for having connections to a company that manufactures artificial tracheas. He is accused of having falisfied data and publishing wrongful information in his papers, as well as having false information in his resumé. Swedish Television have produced a […]
