Backlash Erupts as N.Y.U. Weighs Hiring Scientist Accused of Harassment
Graduate students, faculty and alumni from New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine staged a walkout Wednesday to protest a report that the school may soon hire Dr. David Sabatini, a biologist facing allegations of sexual harassment.
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Dr. Sabatini, 54, is a prominent biologist, best known for his discovery of the mTOR protein, which regulates cell growth in animals, as a graduate student. In a statement, he said accusations of sexual misconduct were false and declined to comment on potential employment at N.Y.U.
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Last August, Dr. Sabatini was placed on administrative leave at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he ran a research lab through the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, after an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment made against him — conducted by a law firm separate from the university — found he had violated the institute’s sexual misconduct policy.
On the same day, Dr. Sabatini also resigned from the Whitehead Institute and was fired by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which had been funding his work at M.I.T.
He resigned from M.I.T. earlier this month after three faculty members recommended that his tenure be revoked, according to a letter to faculty from L. Rafael Reif, M.I.T. president, and obtained by The Boston Globe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/nyregion/nyu-protest-sexual-harassment-sabatini.html