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摘要

Austrian urologist Hannes Strasser will have to serve a two-year sentence for crimes relating to his use of an unauthorized stem-cell therapy to treat urinary incontinence, an appeals court confirmed on 11 June. The treatment was ineffective in many patients, and harmed others. The scandal was exposed six years ago, when Strasser was a professor at the Medical University of Innsbruck (see Nature 454, 922-923; 2008). The university was not allowed to dismiss him because of a ruling from a national employment committee, but the court judgment means that he now has to be dismissed.