曹雪涛回应论文涉嫌造假：对论文结果仍有信心，但不会推脱疏于管理的责任
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根据澎湃新闻介绍，11月18日，中国工程院办公厅工作人员回应曹雪涛论文造假一事，中国工程院会针对网络反映曹雪涛院士的有关问题展开调查。
“我们已经了解到网络上有关曹雪涛院士的投诉，我们会调查处理这件事情，但是进一步调查处理也需要花时间，具体以什么形式展开调查，目前暂时还不掌握最新情况，只是说我们（中国工程院）肯定会调查。”上述人士表示。
最近，有关南开大学校长曹雪涛论文造假一事，引起学术界高度关注，此事缘于国外学者elisabeth m bik的质疑，随后其向pubpeer公开，据bik介绍，他们正在仔细审阅曹雪涛实验室300余篇的论文，发现的问题论文已超过了50篇。
11月18日，曹雪涛也在pubpeer向论文质疑人elisabeth m bik 发出正面回应，回应全信如下：
dear dr. bik,
i’m writing to you in response to recent inquiries you posted with regard to mentioned studies conducted at the national key laboratory of medical immunology and institute of immunology at the second military medical university, with me being the corresponding author.
i appreciate your interest in our work and your commitment to protecting the accuracy of scientific records and the integrity of research pursuit. they are of utmost importance to me all along as well. upon being notified of your inquiries, i have made them our highest priority and immediately took steps to look into the concerns you raised with the team and collaborators and carefully re-examined our manuscripts and raw data and lab records. we’ll work with the relevant journal editorial office(s) immediately if our investigation indicates any risk to the highest degree of accuracy of the published records.
based on our analyses up to this point (still ongoing) and additional feedback we received from colleagues and peers, i would like to add that i remain confident about the validity and strength of the scientific conclusions made in those publications and our work’s reproducibility. nevertheless, there is no excuse for any lapse in supervision or laboratory leadership and the concerns you raised serve as a fresh reminder to me just how important my role and responsibility are as mentor, supervisor, and lab leader; and how i might have fallen short. i feel therefore very heavy-hearted and tremendously sorry, to my current and former students, my staff and colleagues, my peers, and the larger community. i most sincerely apologize for any oversight on my part and any inconvenience it might have caused. i’ll use this as an invaluable learning opportunity to do better not only in advancing science, but also in safeguarding the accuracy and integrity of science.
yours sincerely,
xuetao cao
