William Summerlin

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William Summerlin worked at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York. He claimed that he could transplant tissue from unrelated animals by keeping the tissue in culture for four to six weeks. He used white mice with patches of black fur which he had colored with a black permanent marker.

In 1974, Summerlin was discovered when he made a presentation to immunologist Robert Good; lab assistants noticed that the patches had been drawn on the mice and could be removed using alcohol. Eventually, the forgery was attributed to a mental health problem. Author Joseph Hixson wrote a book about the scandal called "The Patchwork Mouse".

Robert Good was world famous for his contributions to understanding the role of the thymus in immunity and one year earlier he made the cover of Time Magazine. He also directed the world's first bone marrow transplant for immuno-deficiancy.

Robert Good was forced out as President of Sloan Kettering in 1982 by his boss Paul Marx. After spending some time at The University of Oklahoma, he went on to become Chair of Pediatrics at All Children's Hospital/The University of South Florida.