Timeline
- About 1970: Born in Belgium.
- Before 1997: Receives undergraduate education at Cambridge University in England.
- About 1993 - 1997: Works in the laboratory of Harvard professor Dr. Abul Abbas at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH).
- 1997: Earns doctorate in immunology from Harvard.
- 1998 - 2000: Postdoctoral student in the laboratory of Dr. David Baltimore at MIT and California Institute of Technology.
- 2000: Joins the biology department at MIT.
- 2001: Named the Ivan R. Cottrell Career Development Assistant Professor of Immunology at MIT for a three-year term.
- July 2004: Promoted to the rank of associate professor at MIT, without tenure.
- August 2004: MIT begins a confidential investigation when a group of researchers in van Parijs' laboratory alleges research misconduct.
- September 2004: Placed on paid administrative leave and denied access to laboratory by MIT.
- 6 October 2005: Caltech begins inquiry (requested by Baltimore, "when New Scientist pointed out" problems in Caltech papers). (Date & quote: news media #8 and #18, below, respectively.)
- 27 October 2005: MIT fires van Parijs.
- 28 October 2005: News media coverage begins; Harvard/BWH and Caltech work questioned by New Scientist; Abbas determining "course of action" in light of New Scientist enquiries.
- 26 January 2006: Data in 2 Caltech patent applications having inventors van Parijs & others questioned in press (News media #16, below).
- March 2007: Caltech investigation concludes: van Parijs committed research misconduct; four(4) published papers require correction.
- 23 January 2009: Office of Research Integrity's findings of scientific misconduct at Harvard/BWH, Caltech, & MIT as well as van Parijs' Voluntary Exclusion Agreement published in the Federal Register: Vol. 74, No. 14, Notices, Pp. 4201-2
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