The federal government ruled Monday that Anil Potti, a former Duke University researcher, exaggerated and falsified data that claimed he discovered a better way to treat cancer. His claims were found to be exaggerated. Potti claimed he discovered how to prescribe a chemotherapy drug based on a patient’s tumor. Duke halted work on his clinical trials and retracted nine of his published articles. Potti also claimed he was a Rhodes scholar. Other researchers have raised questions about Potti’s research as far back as soon 2006, the lawsuits allege. However, Duke still enrolled patients in three clinical trials, in hopes to patent and spin off a cancer-screening test. If Potti conducts any research within the next five years, he must be supervised.
SOURCE: WRAL
