ORI Updates

Because Dr. Brandi Baughman knew when she signed the 2017 Agreement with ORI that there was an additional paper with falsified figures, she agreed to exclude herself voluntarily from any contracting or subcontracting with any agency of the United States Government...

ORI found that Dr. Bhagavathi Narayanan engaged in research misconduct by knowingly and intentionally falsifying and/or fabricating data reported in the following three published papers and seven grant applications submitted to NIH.

Indiana University and Purdue University are co-sponsoring an ORI funded conference on plagiarism on April 3-5, 2018.

ORI found that Respondent engaged in research misconduct by intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly reporting falsified and/or fabricated data and/or falsifying and/or fabricating data in two (2) papers:

ORI has funding opportunity for research on research integrity and the responsible conduct of research. Deadline: March 23, 2018.

ORI has funding opportunity for grants to hold conferences on research integrity and the responsible conduct of research. Deadline: March 26, 2018.

Research Misconduct Finding: Matthew Endo
ORI found that Matthew Endo engaged in research misconduct by intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing false data to be recorded, falsifying and/or fabricating data and related images by alteration and/or reuse and/or relabeling of experimental data, and reporting falsified and/or fabricated data in a manuscript subsequently submitted for publication.

ORI found that Dr. Mahandranauth Chetram engaged in research misconduct on four NIH-funded grants.  Dr. Chetram entered into a Voluntary Exclusion Agreement and voluntarily agreed for a period of three (3) years, beginning on October 19, 2017.

The latest ORI newsletter features updates on research integrity and an interview with ARIO co-founder Lauran Qualkanbush.

Research Misconduct Finding: Azza El-Remessy
ORI found that Dr. Azza El-Remessy intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly used the same Western blot bands to represent different experimental results.