"despite confirming that" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to show that something happened or is true, even though there was confirmation or evidence to the contrary. Example: Despite confirming that she had studied for the exam, she still failed the test.
Despite confirming that tumours can be classified by their patterns of miRNA expression, Gaur et al, did not characterise melanoma-specific miRNAs in depth.
For example, using microsatellite loci, Tishkoff et al. (2009) identified a number of genetically distinctive subgroups of African populations despite confirming that FST in Africa has an unexpectedly small value.
At a presidential summit in California on Saturday, White House officials said the administration welcomed media interest in US surveillance practices, despite confirming that the Department of Justice is in the early stages of a leak investigation that may lead to criminal prosecutions of whistleblowers who revealed them.
Despite confirming that after 5 days in diapausing conditions females contain egg chambers from Stages 1 7, female-biased expression of primary yolk protein constituents were detectable (Yp1, Yp2, Yp3).
We did not find an independent association between these complications and in-hospital mortality in the present analysis, despite confirming that these long-term associations with poor functional outcome persist (unpublished data).
Twenty of the 24 radiologists did not report seeing the gorilla, despite spending an average of 5.8 s viewing the slices containing the image, and despite visual tracking confirming that 12 of them had looked directly at it [44].
His public performance of gleeful affluence seemed to confirm that Trump, despite being born wealthy, embraced the nouveau-riche dictum that there was no point to having money if you had to then be subtle about it.
Despite evidence confirming that sufficient B12 is absorbed by passive diffusion at a dose of 1000 μg daily to be effective even in patients lacking intrinsic factor or with gastrointestinal disease, 14 the intramuscular route continues to be commonly prescribed.
Despite Vince Cable confirming that Clegg was setting in train an examination of the oversight of Britain's intelligence agencies, No 10 said David Cameron was satisfied with the current system.
Both Prime Minister David Cameron and BBC director general Lord Hall have come out in favour of the 54-year-old, despite the latter confirming that "a serious thing is alleged to have taken place".
I became the fifth wheel on my own vacation despite my agent confirming that the tour was in English.
