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.
Import the Third World, get Third World behavior.
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 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?