Former Pitt postdoc admits to faking data
A former postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh has admitted to committing research misconduct in published papers and in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant applications. The Office of Research...
View ArticleHeart researcher faked 70+ experiments, 100+ images
A former researcher at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago faked dozens of experiments and images over the course of six years, according to a new finding from the Office of...
View ArticleFraudster’s colleague faked data, too
A week after announcing that a researcher formerly at the University of Chicago had faked the results of more than 70 experiments, the U.S. Office of Research Integrity announced yesterday that one of...
View ArticleGrad student who confessed to falsifying data barred from government funding
Nearly five months after a graduate student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine spontaneously confessed to cooking data, the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) said today that she has...
View ArticleFraudster loses third attempt to remove 7-year debarment
A U.S. judge has denied a virology researcher’s third attempt to overturn a seven-year debarment from receiving federal funds, following a 2010 decision by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity. The...
View Article1st retraction for biologist who doctored 40+ images, received funding ban
The Journal of Biological Chemistry has retracted a paper that was one of eight flagged in a recent investigation by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI). The investigation — which concluded that a...
View ArticleFive more retractions for biologist with funding ban brings total to six
An erstwhile cell biologist has retracted five papers published in the Journal of Cell Science (JCS), all of which had been flagged in a recent investigation by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity...
View ArticleSecond retraction for researcher who faked 70+ experiments
Two researchers found to have faked data by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) have lost a paper that they co-authored. According to the ORI report issued on May 25, Ricky Malhotra, one of the...
View Article1st retraction for cancer researcher who doctored data in 11 studies
A cancer journal has retracted a paper co-authored by a researcher who falsified or fabricated data in 11 studies, according to an investigation by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI). In December...
View Article1st retraction for ex-Pitt postdoc who admitted to doctoring data
A former postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh has issued his first retraction after an investigation by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) concluded he had falsified and/or...
View ArticleEx-Mount Sinai postdoc who falsified 50+ images earns 5-year funding ban
A former postdoctoral researcher at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York has received a five-year funding ban after an investigation concluded that they had falsified data underlying more...
View ArticleBiologist with five-year funding ban earns 7th and 8th retractions
A biologist in New Jersey has retracted two more papers, bringing his total to eight retractions, following a finding by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI). The analysis of the work of John...
View Article7th retraction for Ohio researcher who manipulated dozens of figures
A pharmacology researcher at Ohio State University has added his seventh retraction, four years after a finding of misconduct by the U.S. Office of Integrity (ORI). An analysis of the work of Terry...
View ArticleScientists investigated for misconduct lose appeal in suit against Harvard....
Retraction Watch readers may recall the case of Piero Anversa and Annarosa Leri, both formerly of Harvard and the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston. The pair — which has had their work subjected...
View ArticleChild psychiatrist flagged for misconduct loses two more papers
A child psychiatrist has lost two papers after an institutional investigation concluded that she intentionally misrepresented children’s medication history in her research. In November 2015, we...
View ArticleORI misconduct findings fell in 2016. Why? We ask the director
Every year, the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) issues a series of findings against researchers it has determined committed fraud of some kind. In contrast to many agencies such as the National...
View ArticleUnusual: Neurology removes author dinged for misconduct from 2016 paper
Neurology has partially retracted a 2016 paper, replacing a figure and removing the author who contributed it after he was found guilty of misconduct. The journal has replaced the figure with a new one...
View Article“An evolving and inconsistent tale:” Biochemist barred from federal grants...
In 2013, Frank Sauer blamed “visual distortion” for problems with the images in his papers and grant applications. That explanation gave way to the production in 2016 of a mysterious and ominous letter...
View ArticleVolunteer researcher faked weeks’ worth of data
A volunteer researcher at Florida Atlantic University fabricated the results of mouse experiments over a 14-day period in June, 2016, according to a new finding issued by the U.S Office of Research...
View ArticleEx-Wayne State scientist, ORI square off in court
WASHINGTON, D.C — Last week, former brain scientist Christian Kreipke stared down the third set of research misconduct allegations against him since 2011. Or, possibly, according to him, it was the...
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