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ORI sanction and news coverage prompts sleuthing, retraction
Four months after the Office of Research Integrity sanctioned a former postdoc for falsifying images in grant reports, a Science journal is retracting a paper by the researcher for image duplication....
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ORI announces 15-year debarment against former Rice University scientist
Ariel Fernández The U.S Office of Research Integrity has formally announced a 15-year funding debarment against a former Rice University scientist for research misconduct, resolving allegations that...
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Judge upholds 15-year debarment against scientist who once threatened to sue...
iStock An appeals judge has recommended the U.S. Health and Human Services uphold a proposed 15-year debarment for a scientist accused of research misconduct more than a decade ago. In a May 2025...
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Former Mount Sinai postdoc falsified images in grant updates, ORI says
The U.S. Office of Research Integrity has sanctioned a former postdoctoral fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York for manipulating images in two grant updates and a...
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U.S. ORI’s first finding of 2026: Researcher faked data in grant apps
A former cancer researcher at University of Oklahoma Health Science Center has been barred from participating in federally funded research without supervision for three years after the U.S. Office of...
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Court tosses out researcher’s bid to overturn funding ban
A federal court has terminated a former researcher’s lawsuit against the U.S. government agency that barred her from receiving federal funds following an agency investigation that lasted 10 years....
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ORI has released just two misconduct findings this year
The U.S. Office of Research Integrity has been relatively quiet in 2025, releasing just two misconduct findings with only two weeks remaining in the year — the fewest the office has released since at...
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Former lab tech earns federal funding ban years after leaving science
Ryan Evanoff The U.S. Office of Research Integrity has barred a former lab technician at Washington State University from participating in federally funded research for three years after finding he...
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Kidney researcher debarred from federal U.S. funding for image manipulation
Liping Zhang Source: ResearchGate A former Baylor College of Medicine researcher has been debarred from federal funding for two years after a review by the Office of Research Integrity found evidence...
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Exclusive: U.S. federal research integrity teams take hits with departures
Amid efforts by the Trump administration to “put an end to fraudulent and wasteful spending” and “enhance” accountability, two key offices charged with investigating fraud and holding scientists and...
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Former Columbia University psychiatrist committed research misconduct, says...
Bret Rutherford A psychiatry researcher who received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this year committed research misconduct, another federal watchdog found. Bret...
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Exclusive: One university’s three-year battle to retract papers with fake data
Richard Eckert In 2021, the provost of the University of Maryland, Baltimore sounded the alarm about a troubling batch of papers from the lab of Richard Eckert, the former chair of the Department of...
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Former Harvard cancer researcher plagiarized data, federal watchdog says
A former research fellow at Harvard Medical School faked data and used images from another scientist without attribution in a published paper and two grant applications, according to findings from the...
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Former Maryland dept. chair with $19 million in grants faked data in 13...
Richard Eckert A former department chair engaged in research misconduct in work funded by 19 grants from the National Institutes of Health, according to the U.S. Office of Research Integrity. Richard...
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Pharmaceutical researcher faked data in two papers, says federal watchdog
Shaker Mousa A former professor and vice provost for research at the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in New York, falsified data in two published papers, according to findings from the...
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‘Lab shenanigans’: TikTok influencer faked data, feds say
Darrion Nguyen A well-known content creator and former lab technician at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas admitted taking “several shortcuts” in work that has been found to contain falsified data...
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Could ‘write once/read many’ discourage cheating?
TJ O’Neil In a recent Science editorial, Barbara Redman and our Ivan Oransky called for a boost to the budget and authority of the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI). In this letter, a...
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What analyzing 30 years of US federal research misconduct sanctions revealed
A U.S. federal agency that oversees research misconduct investigations and issues sanctions appears to be doling out punishments fairly, according to researchers who analyzed summaries of the agency’s...
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Guest post: Why I commented on the proposed changes to U.S. federal...
Retraction Watch readers may know that the U.S. Office of Research Integrity, which has oversight of misconduct investigations of work funded by the National Institutes of Health, has proposed changes...
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Purdue agrees to pay feds back $737,000 for grant submissions with fake data
Purdue University has reached a settlement with the federal government to pay back grant money the institution received through applications submitted with falsified data, according to the U.S....
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