China’s Tongji University punishes top cancer researcher Wang Ping for misconduct

A top Chinese university has taken disciplinary action against its leading cancer researcher after finding academic misconduct in a 2025 Nature study. The study, which claimed that starving cancer cells of valine – a building block of proteins found in food – could trigger DNA damage and slow tumour growth, contained problematic data in 14 of its 15 figures, Shanghai-based Tongji University said in an official statement on Wednesday. The team, led by Wang Ping, dean of the School of Life...

By Ling Xin