, a researcher of John Hopkins University, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, withdrew four papers from the National College of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS ". Worry.
GREGG SEMENZA (second from left)
According to Hopkins University, Graig Semenza (Greg Semenza) is one of the outstanding researchers in oxygen regulating molecular mechanism today. The Nobel Prize in 2019. Prior to this, a person with a pseudonym Claire Francis began to point out that Semenza had potential images and other manipulation problems in Pubpeer's work.
's four articles are specifically:
"Hypoxia-InduCible Factors MediaTors Mediaate COORDINATED RHOA-ROCK1 Expression and Signaling in Breast Cancer" UAL Antagonism BetWeen Hypoxia-InDuCible Factors 1α and 2α Regulaters Oxygen Sensing and Cardio-Respiratory Homeostasis " Anthracycline Chemotherapy Inhibits HiF-1 TranscriptingAl Activity and Tumor-Induced Mobilization of Circulating Angiogenic Cells Industucible Factors Are Required for Chemotherapy Resistance of Breast CARL STEM Cells "
It is understood that these papers have been referenced more than 750 times. From 1998 to 2013, Semenza was the main researcher of 's funding for . The total research amount exceeded 9 million US dollars.
"Francis" told Retraction Watch: "I watched his problem publication before getting the Nobel Prize in GregG SEMENZA. When he won the Nobel Prize, I recognized his name and looked back again. I have made it wrong?
SEMENZA is not the only Nobel Prize winner who later withdrew the paper. Frances Arnold did the same thing in 2020. Daniel Kahneman also took back some claims, but he did not take back the paper itself. And this is not the first withdrawal of Semenza. In 2011, a paper written with Naoki Mori was also withdrawn.
