Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 6.10.2000

Findings of Scientific Misconduct

Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and the Assistant Secretary for Health have taken final action in the following case: Caroline E. Garey, Boston College: Based on the Report and Addendum of the Boston College Research Misconduct Investigation Committee and additional analysis conducted by ORI in its oversight review, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) finds that Ms. Caroline E. Garey, former doctoral student, Boston College, engaged in scientific misconduct by falsifying research supported by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), grant R01 NS23355. Specifically, as a graduate student at Boston College, Ms. Garey falsified restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) data for ABP and DBA backcross mice DNA samples by misrepresenting results from multiple assays of identical backcross ABP DNA samples as being from different animals and misrepresenting the autoradiograms of backcross ABP DNA samples as the results from experiments on backcross DBA mice. Ms. Garey reported this falsified data in her doctoral dissertation, "Defect in the ceruloplasmin gene associated with epilepsy in