Anne Peyroche

She is married to researcher Gérald Peyroche and has two children.

Fraud allegations

On 19 January 2018, the CEA opened an internal investigation about suspicions of manipulation in the figures of five of her scientific articles. In November 2018, the laboratory notebooks and the hard disks were appraised and the CEA experts concluded that certain allegations were serious. In January 2018, the CEA appointed the immunologist Jean-François Bach, member of the national ethics advisory committee, as chairman of the commission of inquiry responsible for evaluating the five incriminated articles in an advisory capacity. Beginning October 2018, the newspapers L'Express and Le Monde, alleged that the report of the French Academy of Sciences which confirms suspicions of scientific misconduct had been "buried" since May. The CEA considered the procedure is suspended pending the hearing of the researcher.

Nine months after the start of the disciplinary procedure, the CEA took the decision not to apply a disciplinary sanction. The ministry "denies the allegations of L'Express, which affirms that the minister Frédérique Vidal would have asked not to sanction Anne Peyroche," whereas Sylvestre Huet, member of the Council of scientific integrity, writes to Frédérique Vidal that an "intolerable suspicion of intervention" and obstruction of the process of dealing with the fault committed, sends "a disastrous message to the scientific community." In 2020, the CEA was scheduled to publish the full report of the Committee chaired by Jean-François Bach and set up to examine this file. The CEA concluding that "wrongful negligence constitutes breaches of scientific integrity likely to damage the image of the organization and more generally of research."