Paolo Macchiarini
Paolo Macchiarini is a Swiss-Italian thoracic surgeon and former regenerative medicine researcher who became known for research fraud and manipulative behavior. He has been convicted of research-related crimes in Italy (2020) and Sweden (2022, 2023). Macchiarini obtained his medical degree (equivalent to MD) at the Medical School of the University of Pisa (UniPi) in 1986 and a Master of Surgery in 1991. He performed three transplantations of synthetic tracheas coated with stem cells in 2011-12 at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. In November 2012, Macchiarini published an article in The Lancet describing the operation on the first patient.
