Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 25/10/2001

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: David A. Padgett, Ph.D., The Ohio State University: Based on the report of an investigation conducted by The Ohio State University (OSU), the Respondent's admissions, and additional analysis conducted by ORI in its oversight review, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) found that Dr. Padgett, an Assistant Professor at the OSU College of Dentistry engaged in scientific misconduct in grant application 1 R01 AG20102-01 submitted to the National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health (NIH). Specifically, PHS finds that Dr. Padgett plagiarized and misrepresented as his own research data for Figures 1 and 2 of this NIH grant application, data which represented unpublished experiments originally conducted by a researcher at another institution for a private company. The plagiarism was a significant misrepresentation because the data appeared in the preliminary results section of the NIH grant application. The respondent used these experiments, which were relevant to the proposed research, to support the request for funding. Dr.