

Sabatini resigned from the Whitehead Institute in August after an outside law firm hired by the institute to investigate found "that Dr. That process could lead to revocation of his tenure at MIT. It alleges that Sabatini filed the lawsuit to intimidate the defendant from cooperating with an ongoing probe by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where Sabatini is a biology professor.

A lawyer for the third defendant in the Sabatini suit, a woman who told Whitehead investigators that Sabatini had sexually harassed her, filed an affidavit in support of the motion. The Whitehead and its director, Ruth Lehmann, jointly filed the motion in Middlesex County Superior Court. The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research asked a Massachusetts judge today for an emergency stay of a defamation lawsuit filed against it last week by its former biologist David Sabatini. From Friday's article at (Meredith Wadman):
