Posted on 02/14/2024 1:01:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
hree years ago, Jamie Lin, an early-career nephrologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center, made findings that could potentially help both save the kidneys of cancer patients and propel her career as a physician-scientist hoping to one day run her own lab. It was a promising start, but that’s when Lin says one of the Texas institute’s most powerful researchers interfered.
Lin alleges in a lawsuit that prominent oncologist Padmanee Sharma derailed the publication of papers based on Lin’s work, threatened to undermine her fledgling career, and made defamatory comments about her in retaliation for resisting making Sharma an author on a paper and saying the senior researcher had made no substantial contribution to it.
“Having this and another paper taken — what would’ve been important papers for my career,” Lin told STAT in an interview. “I’m sure that my career in research has just fallen off a cliff.”
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An engineering notebook would have helped.
cAT FIGHT?
If she has a provable case I hope she wins millions and the thief is discredited and fired.
A non-Paywall article:
Its a somewhat extreme case, but the world of PhD and academic research is filled with this sort of competition for credit
If true, this is very sad. Padmanee Sharma is married to Nobel Prize winner Jim Allison, who won it for his discovery of immunotherapy treatment for several cancers.
If Sharma actually did this, it seems out of character from what her husband would do, or what MD Anderson would tolerate.
If what this young researcher alleges, she should have no trouble getting a position in another major cancer center.
I see my oncologist at MD Anderson tomorrow. I’ll ask him about this situation. Probably can’t say anything, but I’ll ask.
No one hates women like women hate OTHER women.
Import the Third World, get Third World behavior.
Lin's career is probably finished: no one will hire her because of the lawsuit, even if the allegations are true.
Agreed. The one with the most letters after her name always gets the credit.
the do-nothing leeches in power ALWAYS try to bully their names onto patents and discoveries ... this happened to me on an invention of mine that my company patented ... bosses ordered me to include their names on my patent or they wouldn’t give the go-ahead for the patent process ...
All the best researchers carry a knife for self protection.
The medical research industry is as corrupt as the FBI and the DOJ.
If you go against the authorities, you risk being murdered by them.
Having worked for 20+ years at Harvard Medical School I learned early on that the watchword at such centers is “publish or perish”.
This is how academic medicine has worked forever.
“Honorary” authorship is officially discouraged but is common and accepted as “one of those things” that everyone does.
And, it’s true that every once in a while there’s a young person who never could have done what they did without help from their lab chief but who, for whatever reason, insists on “no, I did it all myself”. That usually doesn’t end well.
I had a late friend treated for cancer at MD Anderson. The individual clinicians (often researchers) seemed excellent. But there was always the impression that the walletectomy was an important component of any treatment. And the same was true of everywhere else.
This is what happens to some people in PhD programs. They have to work on the mentor’s projects and are hindered from pursuing areas that the candidate may find promising. So claiming/receiving credit can happen.
“Theft of intellectual property” ring a bell?
We haven’t seen many recent PhD candidate murder cases, but sometimes they are justified in the mind of the perpetrators?
Well, he got the credit for the discovery.
Did he die from the cancer? Because I can't think of anyone I've run across that actually got cured there.
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