The researcher and surgeon Paolo Macchiarini at Karolinska Instituet, KI, cleared of allegations of research misconduct. It decided Institute’s Vice-Chancellor Anders Hamsten day Friday.
We’ve found that some deficiencies exist, but they are not to be regarded as scientific misconduct, he says in the press release from KI.
Paolo Macchiarini carried out during the years 2011 to 2013 five operations in which seriously ill persons received a new windpipe coated with stem cells from their own bodies. Three of the operations were performed in Sweden.
After two of the patients died, and a third is intensive care for more than two years after surgery Police reported the Swedish Medical Products Agency and the Agency for Health Care.
To Paolo Macchiarini now cleared of allegations of research misconduct does not mean the deal is completed. KI would not comment on the ongoing police investigation.
The comprehensive investigation of fraud made at KI has shown that cooperation needs to be improved between Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital. According to the Institute’s rector will now take inter alia, to develop “better procedures, regulations, and support structures for clinical trials and treatment research.”
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