Aftermath of Scandal and Move Back To Belgium
Dr. Morayma Reyes, the student whom the University of Minnesota found guilty of fabrication was quoted as the errors being "honest" and due to "poor training" and "lack of clear guidelines about digital imaging". She was hired as faculty at the University of Washington at Seattle (UW) before the fraud was discovered. Any separate investigation by UW has not been confirmed.
Dr. Verfaillie moved to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven at the height of the controversy in 2008 but retained her position at the University of Minnesota. She has continued to defend her work and gave a list of publications that have proven the utility of MAPCs, albeit without addressing the criticisms of how the key parts of her work could not be reproduced by other labs. In 2007, she collaborated with Dr. Irving Weissman at Stanford University to demonstrate that MAPCs could produce blood cells although she did not address the key claims of her original 2002 paper.
Dr. Verfaillie is on the editorial board of journals such as Experimental Hematology and PLOS one.
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