ME: French scholar's autopsy needs further study
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FILE - in this March 15, 2001 file photo, Richard Descoings, director of the Institut d'etudes Politiques, or The Paris institute, stands outside the entrance of the school in Paris. Descoings has been found dead in a New York City hotel room, Tuesday afternoon, April 3, 2012. The Paris institute is better known in France as Sciences Po. It's considered a training ground for France's political, media and administrative elite. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, file)
FILE - in this March 15, 2001 file photo, Richard Descoings, director of the Institut d'etudes Politiques, or The Paris institute, stands outside the entrance of the school in Paris. Descoings has been found dead in a New York City hotel room, Tuesday afternoon, April 3, 2012. The Paris institute is better known in France as Sciences Po. It's considered a training ground for France's political, media and administrative elite. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, file)
The Michaelangelo Hotel is shown on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 in New York, where French scholar Richard Descoings, 53, was found dead in his hotel room. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Wednesday that Richard Descoings' seventh-floor Michelangelo hotel room wasn't broken into and the scholar's body didn't have obvious trauma. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
The Michaelangelo Hotel is shown on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 in New York, where French scholar Richard Descoings, 53, was found dead and naked in his hotel room. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Wednesday that Richard Descoings' seventh-floor Michelangelo hotel room wasn't broken into and the scholar's body didn't have obvious trauma. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
The Michaelangelo Hotel is shown on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 in New York, where French scholar Richard Descoings, 53, was found dead and naked in his hotel room. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Wednesday that Richard Descoings' seventh-floor Michelangelo hotel room wasn't broken into and the scholar's body didn't have obvious trauma. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
The Michaelangelo Hotel is shown on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 in New York, where French scholar Richard Descoings, 53, was found dead and naked in his hotel room. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Wednesday that Richard Descoings' seventh-floor Michelangelo hotel room wasn't broken into and the scholar's body didn't have obvious trauma. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
NEW YORK (AP) ? An initial autopsy for a prominent French scholar found dead in his hotel room requires further study.
The medical examiner's office said Wednesday that toxicology and other tests would be done on the body of Richard Descoings (day-KWAHNG') to determine a cause of death.
Descoings was found in his hotel room after he failed to show up for a Columbia University conference.
He served as the director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, or Sciences Po, one of France's top colleges.
Police said there were no obvious signs of foul play.
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