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A cancer researcher in the U.K. will no longer be allowed to practice medicine, following revelations that he had fabricated data to earn grants.
Thorsten Hagemann, MD, formerly a professor at Queen Mary University of London and Barts Cancer Institute, submitted false figures to Cancer Research U.K. and the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, . The U.K.'s Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service decided earlier this month to strike Hagemann from the medical register, making him ineligible to practice medicine in that country. (In 2010, Andrew Wakefield, MBBS, co-author of the infamous -- and retracted -- paper in The Lancet claiming a link between autism and vaccines was .)
Hagemann , and a meeting abstract retracted from The Journal of Pathology. He is now , a company focused on immuno-oncology.
Ivan Oransky, MD, is the co-founder of .