A cancer journal has retracted a paper by a Chitra Mandal, former acting director of an institute in India. Mandal has now lost nine articles to retraction and more than two dozen of her papers have been flagged on PubPeer, most for image irregularities or data issues in graphs. In March, 2026, Wiley’s Molecular Biology International retracted a 2011 article Mandal coauthored, also for image issues. Retraction Watch previously wrote about an expression of concern on a 2016 paper in which Mandal was a co-author.

The latest retraction involves a 2011 paper in Leukemia Research about the movement of lymphoblasts from the bone marrow to peripheral blood in childhood leukemia. The journal retracted the paper on May 30, 2026, citing concerns that some of the data in figures appear to have been manipulated.
 

Source https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/06/former-acting-director-of-national-research-lab-in-india-adds-another-retraction/

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