Falsified funds were fined!

Falsified funds were fined! Well-known universities have compensated more than 700 million yuan

Falsified funds were fined! Well-known universities once compensated more than 700 million yuan for fraudulent funds and were fined! Well-known universities have compensated more than 700 million yuan

Defrauding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding through fabricating data and falsifying experimental results.
Recently, Sam W.
Lee, the former principal investigator of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) affiliated to Harvard Medical School, agreed to pay 215,000 US dollars.
Resolve the above allegations
.

And his organization MGH will return in full the project funds previously obtained about 940,000 U.
S.
dollars
.

In recent years, such scandals have not been uncommon
.

Anversa, a top international cardiovascular expert at the other affiliated hospital of Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and his colleagues were sued by NIH for fraudulently obtaining funds, and finally compensated 10 million US dollars with BWH and reached a settlement with the U.

scandal

Duke University also made a sensation after facing a fine of up to $600 million
.

In 2019, this academic fraud case was finally announced as a settlement.

7.

Was accused of academic fraud 10 years ago

According to the settlement agreement recently announced on the website of the US Department of Justice, Lee made false statements in a funding project application submitted to NIH in June 2014, including falsifying data and falsifying experimental results
.

Between March 1, 2015 and June 7, 2018, MGH received $939,495.
27 in federal funding from the project grant
.

The funds will now be returned in full by MGH

Lee's fraud was discovered after MGH conducted an internal appropriation review.
At that time, MGH chose to stop withdrawing federal funds for the project and disclosed it to the US government on its own initiative
.

Founded in 1811, MGH is the earliest and largest teaching affiliated hospital of Harvard Medical School
.

This is not the only fraud charge Lee has faced
.

According to the retraction observation website, in July 2011, David Vaux, an Australian scientist and research ethicist currently working at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, wrote to the journal Nature, thinking that Lee’s newly published paper There are several serious flaws
.

He and many colleagues have questioned the article titled "Selective Killing of Cancer Cells by the Stress Response of Small Molecules Targeting ROS
.

" Vaux also pointed out that the paper titled "AMT, a p53-induced apoptosis regulator, is essential for adaptive response to nutritional stress" published by Lee's team in "Molecular Cell" in 2009, has no data.

At that time, "Nature" magazine did not take measures
.

Vaux contacted the Office of Research Integrity (ORI)

Over the years, Harvard has been reviewing multiple papers that may have improper processing of images.
This process is often slow but thorough
.

At about the same time, Lee threatened to sue Paul Brookes of ScienceFraud.
org, just because he criticized Lee's work, and the site is now closed
.

Later, "Molecular Cell" retracted the accused paper in 2013
.

"Nature" magazine retracted the manuscript in 2018, but it has accumulated a lot of citations over the years

Ten years later, it was finally time to investigate Lee's academic misconduct
.

Although the two papers reported by Vaux have nothing to do with the NIH project Lee applied for, it is undoubtedly a rare "victory"

The last academic scandal at Harvard : 31 papers were retracted and 10 million US dollars in compensation

The last academic scandal at Harvard : 31 papers were retracted, compensation for 10 million US dollars scandal

This is not the first time Harvard has paid a hefty fine for an academic scandal
.

scandal

In 2018, relevant US agencies concluded that 31 research papers published by Piero Anversa, a famous cardiologist at Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), were withdrawn due to suspected falsification and falsification of data
.

At that time, Anversa was widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of myocardial regeneration
.

He published two famous papers in 2001 and 2003.
He is also famous for his "discovering" that the heart contains stem cells (c-kit)
.
These c-kit cells are said to regenerate myocardium and can be used to treat heart disease
.

Although many international laboratories have tried to replicate his key research results for many years without success, this does not prevent Anversa laboratory from continuing to publish papers and apply for funding
.

BWH began to reassess the papers published by Anversa in January 2013
.
Although Anversa left BWH in 2015, the investigation continues
.

After that, BWH took the initiative to report to the U.
S.
Department of Health and cooperated closely, and finally reached an agreement in April 2017: the U.
S.
Alliance Medical System (cooperative members include MGH, BWH, etc.
) and BWH to pay 10 million US dollars to the federal government.
Paired with Anversa and others for alleged academic misconduct and used forged data and pictures in the project application to obtain NIH project funding
.

Duke University: Pays $112.
5 million in fines to the government

Duke University: Pays $112.
5 million in fines to the government

Duke University, another famous university in the United States, also made a sensation after facing a fine of up to $600 million
.

In 2013, Potts-Kant, a biologist at the school, was arrested on suspicion of embezzling $25,000 and was expelled by the school for stealing the school's official credit card and forging the receipt
.
Subsequently, Joseph Thomas, an analyst at Duke University's laboratory, reported that Potts-Kant had tampered with experimental data in order to obtain a large amount of federal funding
.

corruption

In 2015, Potts-Kant received a court summons, claiming that its falsified data may help laboratories and other research institutions to defraud government subsidies totaling US$200 million, and was suspected of violating the "False Declaration Act
.
" According to the bill, the offending party is required to pay a fine of up to three times the federal government, and the whistleblower can get a reward of 12% to 30%
.

This is a serious case of academic fraud
.
According to the indictment, a member of the laboratory described her work status as: Potts-Kant tampered with data in almost all experiments and projects that she participated in
.

Since 2006, Potts-Kant has helped Duke University get at least $82.
8 million in federal funding for 49 projects from NIH and the U.
S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with falsified data, and indirectly helped other research institutions apply for it.
15 additional funds totaling US$120.
9 million
.

After 4 years, the academic fraud case in 2019 was finally announced as a settlement, and Duke University paid US$112.
5 million in compensation to the federal government
.

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