Nobel Prize judges fired in scandal surrounding trachea transplant surgeon

Two members of the group that awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute have been asked to resign over their involvement in a scandal over the work of an Italian transplant surgeon. Board members at the Karolinska Institute who have not yet quit will be fired, according to Reuters.

The red flags were there from the beginning

The doctor at the center of the scandal is an Italian surgeon named Paolo Macchiarini, who developed and transplanted bioengineered windpipes grown from patients’ own stem cells. Two of his patients died, and Macchiarini has been accused of scientific misconduct. He continues to deny these allegations.

The two scientists who have been asked to resign, Anders Hamsten and H...