A university probe has determined that stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk’s team created no patient-specific stem cells.

Seoul National University’s investigative panel held a news conference Thursday to announce its findings that DNA fingerprints of five stem cell samples from Hwang’s lab did not match those of the original somatic cells of patients.

The probe found that the samples were stem cells from Mizmedi Women’s Hospital.

The panel added that Hwang’s team lacked the scientific data to prove that it had created stem cells tailored to individual patients.

To verify the validity of Hwang’s 2004 thesis on stem cell research published in the U.S. journal Science, school investigators sent a sample from Hwang's No.1 stem cell line and one from the same cell line from thesis co-author Moon Shin-young for DNA analysis.

Meanwhile, the panel said that the results of DNA testing on Snuppy, which Hwang claimed was the world’s first cloned dog, have yet to come out.

The cow Yeongrongi, which the scientist also claimed to have cloned, was excluded from the investigation because the origninal cell donor cow died.

The panel also said it was outside its scope of investigation to probe the matter of the 30,000 dollars that junior researcher Kim Seon-jong entrusted to the panel's custody and that he claimed had been given to him by Hwang’s team as hush money.