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    USC neuroscientist faces scrutiny following allegations of data manipulation

    by Corinne Purtill and Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times Nov 24, 2023 4 minutes
    The campus of the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

    LOS ANGELES — A star neuroscientist at USC is facing allegations of misconduct after whistleblowers submitted a report to the National Institutes of Health that accused the professor of manipulating data in dozens of research papers and sounded alarms about an experimental stroke medication his company is developing.

    The accusations against Berislav V. Zlokovic, professor and chair of the department of physiology and neuroscience at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, were made by a small group of independent researchers and reported in the journal Science.

    The report identifies allegedly doctored images and data in 35 research papers in which Zlokovic is the sole common author. It also raised questions about findings in Phase II clinical trials

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