Former US treasury secretary and onetime Harvard president Larry Summers is retiring from his roles at the university after its review into his ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Summers will resign as co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and retire from his other academic and faculty posts, Harvard said.

It comes a day after Nobel Prize-winner Richard Axel quit as head of Columbia University’s neuroscience lab over his links to Epstein.

The justice department has released millions of documents from its investigation into the convicted paedophile, who died in a New York jail in 2019.