Fraud panel finds researcher guilty.In the latest installment of a highly publicized case of alleged research fraud (SN: 12/14/91, p.399), the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) - a watchdog of the Public Health Service - has found Thereza Imanishi-Kari Thereza Imanishi-Kari (born 1943 in Brazil) is an Associate Professor of Pathology at Tufts University. She received her B.S. in Biology from the University of São Paulo in Brazil; her Ph.D. of Tufts University Tufts University, main campus at Medford, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1852 by Universalists as a college for men. It became a university in 1955. Jackson College, formerly a coordinate undergraduate college for women, merged with the College of Liberal Arts in guilty of 19 charges of scientific misconduct scientific misconduct, n the fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism of research data, or other violations of ethical standards of the scientific community. . Imanishi-Kari conducted the research, on the regulation of immunity, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, . She published it in 1986 with Nobel laureate David Baltimore, who was not accused. In a nearly 300-page report released Nov. 25, ORI documents its statistical and forensic analyses to show the false data were not chance errors but conscious ones "aimed at a particular result." Without such fraud, OPJ OPJ Orthogonal Persistence for Java concluded, "[Imanishi-Kari's] experiments would not have been regarded as significant" - thus not warranting publication or follow-up funding. Notified of these findings 3 months ago, Imanishi-Kari is currently appealing them. If she loses, she would be barred from receiving federal research support for 10 years. |
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