Meet the student who helped boot the president of Stanford The Stanford Daily’s Theo Baker interviews Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) after a class on Oct. 24, 2022. (Nikolas Liepins) — On Christmas Day, Theo Baker was pacing around a relative’s home in Los Angeles, mumbling to himself: “How am I going to get inside Genentech? How am I going to get inside Genentech? How am I going to get inside Genentech?” Get the full experience. Choose your plan He was a freshman at Stanford University, just a few months into his career as a college journalist, and he was already fixated on a huge reporting challenge: finding workers at a Bay Area biotech company, where Stanford’s president had once been a top executive, to scrutinize research he’d overseen. Baker’s parents were initially concerned and skeptical when he told them about pursuing allegations of research misconduct that could implicate Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a neuroscientist who had just completed his sixth year as the head of
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