Paolo Macchiarini misled the world over his breakthroughs in regenerative medicine, but why did most of the institutions that supported him bear no responsibility for hosting a rogue stem cell surgeon? It’s time for them to launch full and independent investigations, argue John Rasko and Carl Power
By 2008 it looked like a medical revolution was under way. Before us lay a new world, where any injured organ could be replaced with one custom-made in the laboratory. Leading us there was the charismatic Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who’d begun replacing damaged windpipes with tissue engineered ones. Each was made of a scaffold and seeded with the patients’ own stem cells, which were meant to turn it into a living, functioning organ. The era of “regenerative medicine” was upon us.
But early 2016 woke us from this dream. Swedish television broadcast Experimenten , a blistering three part investigation into Macchiarini,1 exposing him as a charlatan whose engineered windpipe
It’s time for some of the world’s best hospitals and research institutes to launch full and independent investigations into their support for disgraced transplant surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, argue experts in The BMJ today. Responses from those concerned are also published.
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