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ORI Updates

ORI found that the Respondent provided falsified subject enrollment numbers in applications to NIH. In addition, she knowingly and intentionally provided falsified subject enrollment numbers in reports to the Creighton University Institutional Review Board (IRB) in 2008 and 2009. In addition, ORI found that Respondent's intentionally deceptive behavior, including false statements made to the CU institutional officials, forgery of petty cash receipts, and theft of NIH research grant funds establish a lack of trustworthiness and present responsibility to be a steward of Federal funds.

A conference will be held on April 19, 2012 at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, in remembrance of the 80th anniversary of the start of the studies that occurred at Tuskegee.  The event is directly sponsored by the Office of Sponsored Projects of the Smithsonian Institution, in collaboration with other institutions such as Navy Medicine, the Uniformed Services University, the Navy Medicine Veterans and Alumni Association, and others.

ORI found that Respondent engaged in research misconduct by falsifying data that were included in grant application R01 GM047607-18A1, in a manuscript submitted for publication to the Journal of Cell
Biology, and in several interdepartmental data presentations.

ORI found that Respondent engaged in research misconduct by intentionally and knowingly plagiarizing large amounts of text from other writers' published papers without attribution or citation in the following three (3) papers and one (1) abstract.

ORI found that Respondent engaged in research misconduct by approving publication of three articles and one abstract he knew contained significant amounts of plagiarized text without
attribution or citation from other writers' published papers.

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