Sent: 04 April 2017 15t58 To: Knight. Rex Cc: . lCHDirector Scambler. Peter Subject: FW: Confidential Importance: High Dear Rex, Further to my message to you yesterday. I have in fact been able to find the original email from myself to Dr Stephanou in early 2007 - stored on an old back-up drive. It is pasted below and, because it was prepared in the old Eudora email package, there are a number of code insertions within the text. However, it is reasonably clear to read. With best wishes, Andy Original Message.? From: Dean Sent: None To: .i.stophanou@ich.ucl.ac.uk Cc: p.5cambler; d.latchman Subject: Confidential
Dear Thank you for meeting with Pete and myself on 22nd January 2007 to follow up our earlier discussion regarding the origin of data in recent papers you have published. As you will remember, the main issue related to the use of neonatal primary cardiac myocytes in the paper Valentim et al (2006), ioumal of Molecular and Cellular A member of your unit had contacted Pete Scambler and myself to suggest a" it seemed very unlikely to him that the data almond transecting these cells. oelboouid have been obtained in a bone fide manner. We felt that this investigate and this led to our previous meeting on 26th September 2006, on '10 You told us that Lauren Valentim. the first author on the paper. had been cultures, and subsequent to that meetingatnbso; Pete and i have made - unfortunately she is out of communication by all methods we have able either to confirm that she was indeed responsible for gathering m, wedecided to temporarily close the matter as we are not able finally mm question.&nb5p; However, it was agreed that were Lauren ?0 ?jinfuture, we would proceed to finalise the matter. in the mntime. .. new in future that all data published by your troop are accompanied bv apartments, and certainly of exterisive tabulated data in order to is. new importemwhenthe person mm the