Former Seoul National University professor Hwang Woo Suk
South Korea: Mr. Hwang Woo-suk, forging ES cell treatise: Revocation of honor is unjustified
Cancellation of the President of South Korea:
Received the “Republic of Korea Best Science and Technology Award” for ES cell paper.
However, the award was canceled when the forgery of the treatise was discovered.
Former Seoul National University professor Hwang Woo-suk said, “We will only return the certificate, not the prize money.”
Awarded in 2004:
In 2004, Mr. Huang published the research results extracted by culturing human ES cells for the first time in the world in the international academic journal “Science”.
However, he was dismissed from Seoul National University in 2005 when the forgery of the treatise was revealed.
Opinion to the Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea:
According to the Ministry of Science and ICT
Mr. Huang said on the 24th of last month
The certificate of the Korean Best Science and Technology Award and the cancellation of the award are unreasonable.
The prize of 300 million won cannot be returned.
I sent a written opinion to the effect.
Joongang Ilbo
https://s.japanese.joins.com/JArticle/272917?sectcode=400&servcode=400
KOREAN CLONED STEM CELL INCIDENT OF 2005
In May 2005, Professor Hwang Woo-suk of Seoul National University in South Korea
“We succeeded in extracting ES cells from human cloned embryos using patient’s body cells,” he announced in a paper.
It attracted a great deal of attention as a Nobel Prize-class research.
However, there was a suspicion of data fabrication soon.
In January 2006, the Seoul National University Investigation Committee determined that the results of Professor Huang and others were forged.
Professor Huang resigned as a professor at Seoul National University.
The paper published in “Science” was also withdrawn.
In addition, many eggs are required to produce cloned embryos.
Money is provided to the egg donor,
Egg donation was found by a female collaborator,
This point also became a problem.
http://plaza.umin.ac.jp/~kodama/bioethics/wordbook/hwang_useok.html