The NIH is deeply concerned for the health and safety of people involved in NIH research, and about the effects on the biomedical enterprise in the areas affected by the HHS declared public health emergency for COVID-19. Due to the potential exceptional impact, we want to assure our recipient community that NIH will be doing our part […]

BOSTON – The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that the Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department and two Chinese nationals have been charged in connection with aiding the People’s Republic of China. Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested this morning […]

Without admitting wrongdoing, Dr. Alexander Neumeister, previously a professor of psychiatry and radiology at New York University School of Medicine, accepted a two-year governmentwide debarment for “knowingly, and/or recklessly falsifying and/or fabricating data in the clinical records of research” funded by a half-dozen National Institute of Mental Health grants, the HHS Office of Research Integrity […]

A man from Richland, Washington, is facing life in prison after being convicted of 47 counts of fraud for staging clinical trials that purportedly enrolled dozens of subjects, and paid him and his two firms more than $5 million, William Hyslop, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, recently announced. From 2013 to […]

In today’s edition of the Federal Register, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking entitled “Institutional Review Board Waiver or Alteration of Informed Consent for Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations.”  FDA is proposing to amend its regulations to implement section 3024 of the 21st Century Cures Act.  This proposed rule, if […]

Congratulations to UAMS’s own Amy Jo Jenkins on being elected President of the Society of Clinical Research Associates. https://www.socra.org/about/board-of-directors/2018-election-results/

Six months after the fact, the Ohio State University announced that a research professor resigned amid a finding of “intentional” research misconduct; at the same time, Ohio State took the rare step of publicly releasing parts of its investigative report. Ohio State officials said Ching-Shih Chen, formerly a professor of medicinal chemistry and chair of […]

Following a ruling in January by an administrative law judge, the HHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has debarred a former University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researcher for 10 years for misconduct that included falsifying data published in nine papers and deposited in a registry. In an April 10 notice on its website, ORI […]

A star researcher at the University of Pittsburgh has agreed to pay the U.S. government more than $130,000 to resolve allegations that he submitted false documents to the National Science Foundation to get more than $2.3 million in federal research grants, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Pittsburgh announced Wednesday. Link to full story at http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2018/03/21/University-of-Pittsburgh-Christian-Schunn-false-claims-act-national-science-foundation-grants/stories/201803210135

Bhagavathi Narayanan, a former research associate professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine at New York University (NYU), has been debarred for three years from involvement in federal contracting, according to the HHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI). Narayanan “trimmed and/or copied Western blot images from unrelated sources, manipulated them to obscure their origin, and […]