ORI Updates

ORI acknowledges that the COVID-19 pandemic is causing disruption to the businesses and research institutions that receive funding from the Public Health Service (PHS). During this period, ORI continues to perform mission critical functions and operations with ORI staff exercising maximum telework flexibilities. 

ORI is seeking a highly qualified researcher/analyst to join the project team studying outcomes associated with retractions and corrections requested in conjunction with ORI findings of research misconduct. This one-year appointment may be filled through an OASH Service Fellow appointment (requires a doctoral-level degree and post-doctoral experience), a funded detail of an existing federal employee, or an Intergovernmental Personnel Act appointment.

ORI found that Yihong Wan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, UTSMC, engaged in research misconduct in research supported by U.S Public Health Service (PHS) funds, specifically National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH).

ORI found that Charles A. Downs, former Adjunct Assistant Professor, Arizona Health Sciences Center, UA, engaged in research misconduct in research supported by U.S Public Health Service (PHS) funds, specifically National Center for Advancing Translation Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health (NIH).

ORI found that Dr. David J. Panka, former HMS Instructor of Medicine, and former HMS Associate Professor of Medicine at BIDMC, engaged in research misconduct in research supported by U.S Public Health Service (PHS) funds, specifically National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH).

ORI is looking to hire a Health Science Compliance Specialist. The Compliance Specialist helps ensure PHS-funded research institutions and programs are compliant with PHS regulations on handling allegations of research misconduct.

ORI has a job opening for a Health Scientist. The Health Scientist would have the responsibility for managing all activities related to assigned cases of alleged research misconduct in biomedical research studies and apply their technical knowledge and scientific expertise to develop overall plans to evaluate institutional research misconduct investigations.

ORI invites comments on activities that foster research integrity and promote the responsible conduct of research. ORI will use this information to support the goal of conducting outreach and developing educational resources.

ORI's Extramural Research Program awarded three Research on Research Integrity grants, two Program Development and Evaluation grants, and one Research Integrity Conference grant. 

Today on the occasion of her retirement, we have the opportunity to celebrate the many years of outstanding investigatory work that Ann Hohmann did in the service of her country, public health, and the Office of Research Integrity.