Mount Sinai School of Medicine researcher Savio Woo, whom Retraction Watch reported last week has already retracted four papers from major journals as two postdocs have been fired from his lab, has retracted two more from Molecular Therapy: The Journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy.
The two papers, both from 2007, were “Metabolic Basis of Sexual Dimorphism in PKU Mice After Genome-targeted PAH Gene Therapy” and “Correction in Female PKU Mice by Repeated Administration of mPAH cDNA Using phiBT1 Integration System.” As Nature noted in its coverage of the other retractions, the papers apparently followed from a now-retracted paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that, as we noted in a previous post, “claimed to have discovered a possible cure for phenylketonuria, or PKU, in mice.”
The work was of course already under scrutiny. We’ve asked Mount Sinai for comment, and will update if we hear anything back.
Update, 4:15 p.m., 9/23/10: Mount Sinai confirmed “that these two are part of the six total that were retracted because of the two dismissed postdocs.”
Infomation on
“Enhanced oncolytic potency of vesicular stomatitis virus through vector-mediated inhibition of NK and NKT cells.”
J Altomonte, L Wu, M Meseck, L Chen, O Ebert, A Garcia-Sastre, J Fallon, J Mandeli, S L C Woo, Cancer Gene Ther., 16 (2009)
without the 2 postdocs blamed for earlier retractions available at pubpeer.
http://pubpeer.com/publications/BC40D2F699B06F6934A46DBA075131
Enhanced oncolytic potency of vesicular stomatitis virus through vector-mediated inhibition of NK and NKT cells.”
J Altomonte, L Wu, M Meseck, L Chen, O Ebert, A Garcia-Sastre, J Fallon, J Mandeli, S L C Woo, Cancer Gene Ther., 16 (2009)
Now with illustrations.
https://pubpeer.com/publications/18846115
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