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The Hwang affair, [1] or Hwang scandal, [2] or Hwanggate, [3] is a case of scientific misconduct and ethical issues surrounding a South Korean biologist, Hwang Woo-suk, who claimed to have created the first human embryonic stem cells by cloning in 2004.
Hwang first caught media attention in South Korea when he announced he had successfully created a cloned dairy cow, Yeongrong-i in February 1999. His alleged success was touted as the fifth instance in the world in cow cloning, with a notable caveat: Hwang failed to provide scientifically verifiable data for the research, giving only media sessions and photo ops.
Thayi described Hwang as a "polarizing figure" in South Korea and wanted to do an objective take on him." [1] According to Variety, Thayi learned about Hwang due to anxiety he had waiting for the birth of his child, due to growing up in India in the 1980s where multiple industrial disasters occurred affecting children's health. He looked into ...
Hwang, 60, whose given name is Sung Kook Hwang, set up Archegos in New York as a family office in 2013, the year after his former hedge fund Tiger Asia Management pleaded guilty to wire fraud in ...
Disgraced multimillionaire and convicted white collar criminal Bill Hwang is too broke to ever pay the nearly $10 billion in restitution requested by prosecutors to make some of Wall Street’s ...
A jury was chosen on Thursday in the criminal racketeering trial of Sung Kook "Bill" Hwang over the 2021 collapse of his $36 billion fund Archegos Capital Management, setting the stage for opening ...
Woo-suk Hwang (Hwang Woo-suk) (South Korea), former Professor of Biotechnology at Seoul National University, was found by a University committee to have committed "deliberate fabrication" in his research on stem cells, and to have coerced female members of his research team to donate their eggs. [82] The incidence is known as the Hwang affair.
(Reuters) -Sung Kook "Bill" Hwang tried to trick all of Wall Street, a federal prosecutor told a Manhattan federal jury, as his trial on charges stemming from the 2021 collapse of Hwang's $36 ...