UNC-Chapel Hill vice chancellor resigns post after admitting to plagiarism
Terry Magnuson, the vice chancellor for research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s medical school, has resigned from that post two days after the U.S. Office of Research Integrity...
View ArticleAward-winning Berkeley postdoc faked data, says federal watchdog
A former University of California, Berkeley postdoc in physics “engaged in research misconduct in research reported in a grant application” submitted to the NIH, according to the U.S. Office of...
View ArticleEinstein duo faked data in 16 federal grant applications: ORI
A pair of researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York faked data in 50 figures in 16 NIH grant applications for six years starting in 2013, according to new findings from the...
View ArticleEinstein fired researcher in 2019, more than two years before ORI finding
A researcher who agreed to a dozen years of supervision for NIH-funded research was fired from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at the end of 2019, Retraction Watch has learned. As we reported...
View ArticleCancer researcher faked data for 24 images in work funded by nine NIH grants:...
A cancer researcher faked data in a grant application, her PhD thesis, and seven published papers, according to the U.S. Office of Research Integrity. Toni Brand, who earned her PhD from the University...
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Former UPenn prof faked more than 50 figures, says government watchdog
William Armstead A pharmacy researcher who left the University of Pennsylvania sometime last year has been found guilty of research misconduct in multiple federal grant applications and five published...
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Former postdoc who admitted to faking data pleads guilty to attempted forgery
George Laliotis A cancer researcher who admitted to faking data has pleaded guilty to attempted forgery in a case involving letters of recommendation he passed off as coming from his former...
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Former Alabama chemistry prof faked data in grant applications: Federal watchdog
Surangi (Suranji) Jayawardena A former chemistry professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville admitted to reusing data in grant applications to the National Institutes of Health while claiming...
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Researcher sues U.S. government following debarment, misconduct finding
Ivana Frech A former researcher at the University of Utah has filed for a temporary restraining order against the U.S. government agency that last week barred her from receiving federal funds. Ivana...
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Weill Cornell cancer researchers committed research misconduct, feds say
Andrew Dannenberg Two cancer researchers who formerly worked at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City published 12 papers with fake data that amounts to research misconduct, according to findings...
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Alcohol researcher faked data in animal studies, US watchdog says
Lara Hwa A neuroscientist who studies alcohol and stress faked data in two published studies and two grant applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to a U.S....
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Auburn PhD student faked data in grant application and published paper, feds say
A former PhD student at Auburn University in Alabama relabeled and reused images inappropriately in a grant application, published paper, and several presentations, a U.S. government watchdog has...
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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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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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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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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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