网传南开大学校长曹雪涛院士约 47 篇论文涉嫌数据造假，你如何看待？ 第1页

曹院士的最新回应，摘自pubpeer

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

亲爱的Bik博士，

对于您最近发表的关于在第二军医大学医学免疫学国家重点实验室和免疫学研究所进行的上述研究的质疑，我写信给您，我是通讯作者。

感谢您对我们工作的兴趣以及您对保护科学记录的准确性和研究追求的完整性的承诺。 一直以来，它们对我也至关重要。 在收到您的质疑后，我已将其列为我们的首要任务，并立即采取措施调查您与团队和合作者提出的问题，并仔细地重新检查了我们的手稿，原始数据和实验室记录。 如果我们的调查发现所发布记录的最高准确性存在任何风险，我们将立即与相关的期刊编辑部合作。

根据到目前为止的分析（仍在进行中）以及我们从同事和同行那里获得的其他反馈，我想补充一点，我对这些出版物中得出的科学结论的有效性和优势以及我们工作的可重复性仍然充满信心。 然而，监督或实验室领导地位的任何失调是没有任何借口的，您提出的疑虑再次提醒我，我作为指导者，主管和实验室领导者的角色和责任有多重要； 以及我可能无法做到的事情。 因此，对于我现在和以前的学生，我的员工和同事，我的同龄人以及更大的社区，我感到非常痛心，并感到非常抱歉。 对于我的疏忽以及给您带来的不便，我深表歉意。 我将以此为宝贵的学习机会，不仅可以在促进科学发展方面而且在维护科学的准确性和完整性方面做得更好。

此致，

曹雪涛