Dr Amin Moghaddam, 54, says he was the brains behind a ground-breaking 2014 study and has accused his former Oxford colleague Professor Quentin Sattentau of stealing his ideas
Oxford University academics are locked in a nutty court fight over claims a row about research into peanut allergies led to one of them being unfairly sacked.
Dr Moghaddam left the university in March 2019 - after 16 years at Oxford - when his fixed-term contract ended and he failed to secure more funding. He says he was responsible for ground-breaking 2014 research on peanut allergies which made headlines with the discovery that dry-roasted peanuts posed a greater risk to those with sensitivities than raw peanuts.
The study concluded that the findings could explain the lower allergy rates in East Asian populations, where boiled, raw or fried nuts are a more common part of the diet than roasted ones.Dr Moghaddam, in his Employment Tribunal case, complained that Prof Sattentau failed to support his career and instead 'used his fixed-term career status and reliance on grant funding for his research as a means to appropriate Dr Moghaddam's scientific ideas, results and projects'.
In September 2022, the tribunal dismissed his case on all fronts, but he is now fighting on, claiming the tribunal judge 'failed to resolve' whether his whistleblowing complaints about alleged plagiarism ultimately caused the loss of his plum post at Oxford University.
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