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MIT professor is accused of claiming others’ scientific discoveries as his own

Researchers have cast doubts on the integrity of work by professor Ram Sasisekharan, whose computational approach has been used to develop new treatments.
The Maclaurin Building on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus

MIT professor Ram Sasisekharan made his name on the idea that algorithms and computer models could lead to better and more potent therapies, a promise that launched three biotech companies and attracted hundreds of millions of dollars.

But two treatments purportedly discovered with Sasisekharan’s computational approach are almost identical to compounds that had previously been described

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