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Among other radical changes, the institutions will limit their enrollments, teach a wide variety of subjects, and seek private-sector support.
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April 24, 2006
Pitt Is Said to Have Allowed Stem-Cell Research to Skip Review Board
A University of Pittsburgh scientist who collaborated with South Korean researchers on stem-cell studies that were later proved fraudulent did not seek approval for the work from Pitt’s institutional review board, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported on Sunday. Some bioethicists were quoted as criticizing the university’s willingness to let the research go unreviewed, given the ethical controversies surrounding stem-cell studies.
The scientist, Gerald P. Schatten, told the review board that the research was exempt from its oversight because the studies involved no identifiable human subjects, although that was not true, the newspaper said. Pitt has exempted privately financed studies, like the one in which Mr. Schatten participated, from the board’s oversight, the paper reported.
Mr. Schatten, who has not spoken to reporters since the South Korean scandal erupted last year, was found by an investigative panel at Pitt to have committed “research misbehavior” (The Chronicle, February 13), but he still has his defenders (The Chronicle, February 3).
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