VIDEO: UC Davis Surgeons' Experimental Brain Operations Led to Human Research Ban

Two UC Davis professors were banned from performing medical research on humans, as reported in a Sacramento Bee story over the weekend. The details are covered in the video above. 

The university says Dr. J. Paul Muizelaar experimented on terminally ill brain cancer patients without getting permission form the university, resulting in “serious and continuing noncompliance.”

Muizelaar, 65, is the Chairman of Neurological Surgery. He and Rudolfph Schrot, 44, conducted the experiments.

The doctors got consent from three terminally ill patients with malignant brain tumors to introduce bacteria into their open heads. The hope was that it might prolong their lives. Two of the patients developed sepsis and died, according to the Sacramento Bee.

“There are people who blatantly break the rules that endanger all of their research programs,” said Muizelaar in this Associated Press story. “We certainly didn’t blatantly trample any rules.”

Muizelaar called the university’s research ban an overreaction, according to the Bee. He says if he came down with a similar brain issue, he would demand that the procedure be performed on himself.

Do you agree with the professor, or not?

Read more about the ban and the treatment in the Sacramento Bee and let us know what you think of the violations below. 

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