Four professors at the Kyoto University Primate Research Laboratories spend over 500 million yen illegally University report on April 2, 22:31
Four professors at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute, world-famous for their research on monkeys, have found that Kyoto University has compiled a research report stating that it has unfairly spent over 500 million yen in research funds. .
Four researchers were allegedly involved in the misconduct of the research fund, including Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Kyoto University and Professor Masami Tomonaga of the Primate Research Institute.
According to stakeholders, Dr. Matsuzawa and his colleagues reported 28 fictitious transactions involving chimpanzee cage construction, which was carried out at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute in Aichi Prefecture and related facilities during the four years until 2014. In other words, it was spending more than 500 million yen in total.
In addition, inappropriate cases have been identified, such as communicating the budget to the contractor before bidding and making the contract to be bid on a contract.
He explained that he had done so in order to make up for the deficit that had occurred to the dealer through the transaction, and that there was no private diversion.
Professor Matsuzawa worked on elucidating how human perceptions and behaviors evolved through research on chimpanzees, etc., and was selected as a culturally distinguished person in 2013. I can't comment on it, "
Professor Tomonaga did not receive a response by the evening of February 2.
The university will provide a period of appeal and publish a report soon to consider disposition.