KI dismisses Paolo Macchiarini – New Technology

The scandalous surgeon Paolo Macchiarini dismissed. It announces the Karolinska Institute in a press release.

Part of the board has been replaced, the Rector has resigned and a leading stem cell researcher has resigned from the Nobel Committee. The wave of the so-called Macchiarini affair has rolled in over the Karolinska since the end of January. Today took the staff committee at the Karolinska Institute that the decision to dismiss the surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. The process has been in operation since the end of February. Then they had already decided that his job when his mandate ended November 30 this year. But now he is said then up.

– It is impossible for KI to continue to have any cooperation with Paolo Macchiarini. He has acted in a way that is very tragic consequences for affected individuals and their families. His actions have damaged confidence in the KI and for research in general, says HR director Mats Engelbrektson.

Paolo Macchiarini recruited as guest professor at the Karolinska Institute in 2010. Dit he came to lead research in the hot research field of regenerative medicine. With trachea of ​​plastic, covered by the patient’s own stem cells, would severely ill patients life is saved. Did the concept would other sustainable vital organs which are not rejected by the immune system could be created and organ shortages become a memory. Of the three who underwent surgery at the Karolinska Hospital in 2011 and 2012 are two dead and the third is in intensive care. Such mutilation is now being investigated by prosecutors as “manslaughter or bodily harm.” All three are considered serious crimes. Another five patients were less severely ill later operated in the Russian Krasnodar and in the United States. Four of them have died

Karolinska Institute notes that Paolo Macchiarini has acted and operated in a manner that is not consistent with employment at KI. As a reason for the dismissal is said:

1. Paolo Macchiarinis activities at the Kuban State Medical University in Krasnodar is incompatible with KI’s values ​​and has damaged KI’s reputation.
2. Paolo Macchiarini has not truthfully and completely reported their outside activities.
3. Paolo Macchiarini has supplied false or misleading information in the resume he submitted to KI
4. Paolo Macchiarini has shown negligence in research according to KI’s investigation, 2015.

New Technology’ve searched Paolo Macchiarini for comment but did not reach him.