Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 24.10.2005

Findings of Scientific Misconduct

Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and the Acting Assistant Secretary for Health have taken final action in the following case: Xiaowu Li, MD, PhD, The University of California at San Francisco: On September 16, 2005, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) entered into a Voluntary Exclusion Agreement with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and Xiaowu Li, MD, PhD, former postdoctoral fellow at UCSF. Based on the UCSF report and additional analysis conducted by ORI in its oversight review, PHS found that Dr. Li engaged in scientific misconduct in reporting research supported by grants P01 DE13904, "Adhesion and proliferation in oral cancer progression," R01 DE12856, "Oral melanoma alpha v beta 3 expression and metastasis," and R01 DE011930, "Regulatory function of fyn in oral SCC invasion," all funded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Specifically, PHS found that Dr. Li falsified three images in Figure 5B of a paper, "Laminin-5 promotes cell motility by regulating the function of the integrin [alpha]6[beta]1 in pancreatic cancer," published online in Carcinogenesi