Stanford president resigns after fallout from falsified data in his research

People walk on the Stanford University campus beneath Hoover Tower in Stanford, Calif., on March 14, 2019. Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne said on Wednesday he would resign, citing an independent review that cleared him of research misconduct but found flaws in other papers authored by his lab. (Ben Margot/AP)

The president of Stanford University has resigned after an investigation opened by the board of trustees found several academic reports he authored contained manipulated data.

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who has spent seven years as president, authored 12 reports that contained falsified information, including lab panels that had been stitched together, panel backgrounds that were digitally altered and blot results taken from other research papers.