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Nature 403, 353 (27 January 2000) | doi:10.1038/35000388

Top UK epidemiologist suspended after complaints

Natasha Loder

Roy Anderson, a professor of zoology at the University of Oxford and the director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, has been suspended on full pay following formal complaints from two female members of his staff.Paul Harvey, the head of the zoology department, says that the suspension is a "neutral move while the allegations are under investigation and so do not say anything about innocence or guilt".