Crick Institute Retracts COVID Vaccine Study After Student Admits Data Fabrication
Science Translational Medicine retracted a 2022 COVID-19 vaccine study after the Francis Crick Institute confirmed that former Ph.D. student Kevin Ng fabricated data and falsified images. This is Ng’s second retraction this year, following a similar issue with a Nature paper on lung cancer. The institute found no evidence of malpractice by coauthors, and Ng has since left academia to pursue classical music journalism.