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Background: the controversy around Paolo Macchiarini
2010: the Surgeon and the researcher Paolo Macchiarini is employed as a visiting professor at the Karolinska institutet (KI). While employed, he was a part-time consultant at the Karolinska university hospital (KS).
2011-2012: Macchiarini performs three operations with the artificial trachea in KS. Two of the patients are now dead. A living, but treated at a hospital in the united states.
2013: KS stops all further operations with the synthetic trachea.
in 2014, on Three different notifications in which Macchiarini accused of research misconduct is submitted, one of a belgian scientist and two of the four doctors at KS.
2015: Neither the institute’s ethics council or the vice-chancellor considers that the Macchiarini has been guilty of misconduct. However, the ends of his chair and he gets a temporary position as researcher.
2016: the SVT broadcasting the documentary series “the Experiments” where Macchiarinis research question. Several key positions within the KI are leaving their mission: Urban Lendahl, secretary of the institute’s nobel committee, vice-chancellor Anders Hamsten, dean of research Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren, rektorsrådet Jan Carlstedt-Duke, karolinska institutet’s board of directors with chairman Lars Leijonborg less. KI dismisses Paolo Macchiarini.
Facts: Mikael Odenberg
the Karolinska institute’s new chairman of the board Mikael Odenberg, director general for the Swedish national grid. He is the former M-politician and was minister of defence in Fredrik reinfeldt’s government. Odenberg resigned as minister in 2007 after a conflict on defence policy.
It was in september 2007, Mikael Odenberg resigned as defense minister after having met in luven with partibröder regarding cuts in defence. Odenberg joined on the planned savings, but when the additional savings of 3-4 billion were announced, he resigned.
Facts: They have resigned after the scandal
Anders Hamsten
the President of Karolinska institutet (KI) in 2013-2016. Resigned in February after massive criticism. Proposed Macchiarini from the suspicion of research misconduct and defended Macchiarinis operations in an op-ed in the Day Medicine.
was Invited in september to leave his mission in the nobel assembly, something he has not yet done.
Harriet Wallberg
the President of KI 2003-2013. Was, according to Stone Heckschers report the driving force in recruiting Paolo Macchiarini to KI and KS. Left KI for the post of university chancellor, but was dismissed by the government.
was Invited in september to leave his mission in the nobel assembly, something she has not yet done.
Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren
Left at its own initiative, its mission as dean of research at KI. Was one of the people who dealt with the case where Macchiarini was cleared of research misconduct.
Jan Carlstedt-Duke
Left his role as rektorsråd on KI in February. Contributed to to free Macchiarini from the suspicions of research misconduct.
Lars Leijonborg and the institute’s board of directors
Chairman of the CIS board of directors, who resigned on 2 september, before the Stone Heckschers report on KI. Helene Hellmark Knutsson (S), minister of research and higher education, laid-off later the whole of the institute’s board of directors, and said that she had dismissed even Leijonborg if he not gone voluntarily.
Katarina LeBlanc
Has requested to have its name removed from a scientific article published in the prestigious Lancet. The article is being investigated for research misconduct. Has on its own initiative, left the nobel assembly while the investigation is ongoing.
Urban Lendahl
Left his post as secretary of the nobel Committee and the nobel assembly voluntarily, because he has been investigated for its role in recruiting Macchiarini.
in Addition to the above, two managers at the KS had to take time-out: the former head of the department of thoracic surgery in KS, where Macchiarini performed in synthetic trachea in three patients, as well as the department head for ear, nose, & throat clinic, where Macchiarini was employed as a consultant.
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