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Michael O. Leavitt,
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Findings of Scientific Misconduct
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Notice.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that
the Office of Research Integrity (ORI)
and the Assistant Secretary for Health
have taken final action in the following
case:
Luk Van Parijs, PhD, Harvard Medical
School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital,
California Institute of Technology, and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
Based on the reports of separate
investigations conducted by Harvard
Medical School (HMS)/Brigham and
Women’s Hospital (BWH), California
Institute of Technology (CalTech), and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) and additional analysis
conducted by the Office of Research
Integrity (ORI) in its oversight review,
the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS)
found that Dr. Luk Van Parijs, former
Graduate Student, Department of
Pathology, HMS, former Research
Fellow and Instructor of Pathology,
BWH, former Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Biology, CalTech, and
former Associate Professor, Department
of Biology, Center for Cancer Research,
MIT, engaged in scientific misconduct
in research supported by National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of
Health (NIH), grants U19 AI56900, R21
AI49897, R01 AI42100, P01 AI35297,
R37 AI25022, R01 AI32531, National
Cancer Institute, NIH, grant R01
CA51462, and National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences
(NIEHS), NIH, grant P30 ES02109, and
National Institute of General Medical
Sciences (NIGMS), NIH, grant R01
GM57931.
PHS found that Respondent engaged
in scientific misconduct by including
false data in NIAID, NIH, grant
applications R01 AI54519–01A1, R01
AI54973–01, and R01 AI54973–01A1,
NCI, NIH, grant application 2P30
CA14051–34, and National Institute of
Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases (NIDDK), NIH, grant
application R21 DK69277–01.
Specifically, PHS found that
Respondent engaged in scientific
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misconduct by including false data in
seven published papers, three submitted
papers (with two earlier versions
submitted for one of these), one
submitted book chapter, and multiple
presentations as follows:
1. While at HMS/BWH, Dr. Luk Van
Parijs falsified the expression of IFN–g
and KJ–126 in flow cytometry dot plots
for the immunized, naive, tolerized and
tolerized + IL–12 experimental groups
in Figure 4, JEM 186:1119–1128, 1997,
by using the same non-stained cell
population in the lower left quadrant to
falsely represent CD4+ T cells negative
for IFN–g and KJ–126 in each
experimental group.
2. That Dr. Luk Van Parijs falsified the
expression of different proteins in flow
cytometry dot plots in Figure 1,
Immunity, 8:265–274, 1998, in Figure
1C, Immunity, 11:281–288, September
1999, and in Figure 5, Immunity
11:763–770, December 1999, by using
portions of the same dot plot to
represent different cell populations
expressing different proteins.
Specifically:
a. While at HMS/BWH, Dr. Van Parijs
used portions of the same dot plot to
represent T cell populations expressing
the 3A9 T cell receptor and CD4+ (top
panel) or CD8+ (bottom panel) in 3A9+
(wild type), in 3A9/lpr (Fas¥), or in
3A9/gld (FasL¥) transgenic mice in
Figure 1, Immunity 1998, where:
i. The CD4/3A9 dot plots for the 3A9+
and 3A9/gld transgenic mice were the
same, and the 3A9+ dot plot was a
subset of the 3A9/lpr dot plot;
ii. The CD8/3A9 dot plots for the
3A9+ and 3A9/lpr transgenic mice were
the same in the lower left and lower
right quadrants, and the 3A9/gld dot
plot was a subset of the wild type dot
plot
b. While at CalTech, Dr. Van Parijs
used portions of the same dot plot to
represent the expression of hIL–2Rb and
GFP in T cells infected with WT or
D355+8F IL–2R mutant in Figure 1C,
Immunity, September 1999, where the
D355+8F dot plot was a subset of the
WT dot plot
c. While at CalTech, Dr. Van Parijs
used portions of the same dot plot to
represent the expression of B220 and
IgM in infected (GFP+) and not infected
(GFP¥) spleen cells isolated from
reconstituted mice in Figure 5,
Immunity, December 1999, where the
Infected (GFP+) dot plot for control
mice was a subset of the Not Infected
(GFP¥) dot plot for FLIP mice.
3. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs
falsely claimed in the text of RNA
Interference Technology (Cambridge
University Press, July 2004) and in
Figure 2 of Nature Genetics 33:401–406
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(2003) that experiments depicting the
functional silencing of genes in
hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and in
non-cycling dendritic cells by lentiviralmediated RNAi were performed, when
they were not. Specifically, in Nature
Genetics:
a. Figure 2b falsely showed the
transduction of bone marrow-derived
dendritic cells infected with pLL3.7 Bim
by flow cytometry, and knockdown of
Bim expression by Western blot
b. Figure 2d falsely showed the
efficiency of pLL3.7 CD8 lentiviral
infection in HSCs by flow cytometry for
GFP expression (left panel), and falsely
showed stable gene expression in
progeny by flow cytometry for GFP
expression in spleen cells from
chimeras derived from infected HSCs
(right panel)
c. Figure 2e falsely showed the
reduction of CD8+ T cells in spleen cells
from chimeras derived from pLL3.7 CD8
infected HSCs (right panel) and controls
(left panel).
4. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs
falsified figures in grant applications
submitted to the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), a presentation in 2003,
and Figure 6A, Immunity 19:243–255
(2003), by falsely claiming that the
image in the figure represented an
immunoprecipitation assay for Ras-GTP
and a Western blot for total Ras protein,
when it actually represented a Western
blot for Bcl–2 and b-actin in T cells,
previously published as Figure 5C, J.
Immunol., 168:597–603 (2002).
Dr. Van Parijs also admitted to
falsification or fabrication of data in
multiple submitted manuscripts, grant
applications submitted to NIH, and
presentations as follows.
5. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs
admitted that in multiple presentations
and submitted manuscripts in 2004, he
falsely claimed that the bifunctional
lentiviral vectors, U6–shRNA–rat
insulin promoter (RIP)-Myc had been
made, when they had not, and that
transgenic mice carrying these lentiviral
vectors with shRNA silencing Bim or
Pten proteins in pancreatic cells showed
accelerated tumorigenesis and death.
6. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs
admitted that in multiple presentations
in 2003 and 2004 and in grant
application R21 DK69277–01 submitted
to NIH in 2003, he falsely claimed that
the number of CD8+ T cells and the
incidence of diabetes was reduced by
silencing CD8 expression with the
pLL3.7 CD8 lentivirus in non-obese
diabetic (NOD) transgenic mice, when
the NOD transgenic mice data did not
exist.
7. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs
admitted that in multiple presentations,
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submitted manuscripts, and grant
applications submitted to NIH in 2004,
he falsely claimed that transgenic mice
had been generated with the monofunctional lentiviral vectors with c–
Myc, Ras or Akt under the control of the
CD4 promoter, when they had not, and
that transgenic mice had been generated
with the bi-functional lentiviral vectors
with CD4–c–Myc, Ras or Akt– and U6–
shRNAs targeting luciferase, Bcl–2, or
Bim proteins, when they had not. The
effect of these misrepresentations was
the reported false conclusion that a
cytokine-stimulated proto-oncogene
network regulated CD4+ T-cell survival
and responses to foreign and self
antigens.
8. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs
admitted that in presentations and
submitted manuscripts in 2004, he
falsely claimed that mice injected with
plasmids carrying shRNAs for Bcl–2,
Akt1 and Akt2, complexed to
polyethylene imine (PEI) showed a
significant reduction in c–myc-induced
tumor growth, when the experiments
had not been done.
9. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs
admitted that in presentations in 2004,
he falsely claimed that shRNAs
designed using algorithms developed in
2004 were more effective to silence
target genes than the shRNAs designed
with algorithms in 2002.
10. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs
admitted that in multiple presentations,
submitted manuscripts, a grant
application submitted to NIH, and in the
text of Current Opinions in Molec.
Therapeutics, 6:136, 2004, he falsely
claimed that an in vivo RNAi screen
was developed to identify genes in
cytokine and apoptosis pathways that
accelerated or suppressed Myc-induced
tumorigenesis in lethally irradiated
mice, by using bi-functional lentiviral
vectors that expressed c-Myc under
control of the CMV enhancer-b-actin
promoter (CAG) and U6-driven shRNAs
designed to silence 168 selected genes,
when the experiments had not been
done.
11. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs
admitted that in a submitted manuscript
in 2004 and a grant application
submitted to NIH in 2003, he falsely
claimed that with the use of retroviral
vectors with Bim and activated Ras, Akt
or Myc, he showed that the IL–2stimulated activation of proto-oncogene
pathways functioned to promote the
survival of T cells following antigen
encounter by regulating Bim and Bcl–2
pathways, when the experiments that
were performed were inconclusive.
Dr. Van Parijs has entered into a
Voluntary Exclusion Agreement in
which he has voluntarily agreed, for a
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period of five (5) years, beginning on
December 22, 2008:
(1) to exclude himself from any
contracting or subcontracting with any
agency of the United States Government
and from eligibility or involvement in
nonprocurement programs of the United
States Government referred to as
‘‘covered transactions’’ pursuant to
HHS’ Implementation (2 CFR Part 376 et
seq.) of OMB Guidelines to Agencies on
Government wide Debarment and
Suspension (2 CFR, Part 180); and
(2) To exclude himself from serving in
any advisory capacity to PHS, including
but not limited to service on any PHS
advisory committee, board, and/or peer
review committee, or as a consultant.
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Director, Division of Investigative
Oversight, Office of Research Integrity,
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
Findings of Scientific Misconduct
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity
(ORI) and the Assistant Secretary for Health have taken final action in
the following case:
Luk Van Parijs, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, California Institute of Technology, and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology: Based on the reports of separate
investigations conducted by Harvard Medical School (HMS)/Brigham and
Women's Hospital (BWH), California Institute of Technology (CalTech),
and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and additional analysis
conducted by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in its oversight
review, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) found that Dr. Luk Van
Parijs, former Graduate Student, Department of Pathology, HMS, former
Research Fellow and Instructor of Pathology, BWH, former Postdoctoral
Fellow, Department of Biology, CalTech, and former Associate Professor,
Department of Biology, Center for Cancer Research, MIT, engaged in
scientific misconduct in research supported by National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health
(NIH), grants U19 AI56900, R21 AI49897, R01 AI42100, P01 AI35297, R37
AI25022, R01 AI32531, National Cancer Institute, NIH, grant R01
CA51462, and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
(NIEHS), NIH, grant P30 ES02109, and National Institute of General
Medical Sciences (NIGMS), NIH, grant R01 GM57931.
PHS found that Respondent engaged in scientific misconduct by
including false data in NIAID, NIH, grant applications R01 AI54519-
01A1, R01 AI54973-01, and R01 AI54973-01A1, NCI, NIH, grant application
2P30 CA14051-34, and National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and
Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), NIH, grant application R21 DK69277-01.
Specifically, PHS found that Respondent engaged in scientific
misconduct by including false data in seven published papers, three
submitted papers (with two earlier versions submitted for one of
these), one submitted book chapter, and multiple presentations as
follows:
1. While at HMS/BWH, Dr. Luk Van Parijs falsified the expression of
IFN-[gamma] and KJ-126 in flow cytometry dot plots for the immunized,
naive, tolerized and tolerized + IL-12 experimental groups in Figure 4,
JEM 186:1119-1128, 1997, by using the same non-stained cell population
in the lower left quadrant to falsely represent CD4+ T cells negative
for IFN-[gamma] and KJ-126 in each experimental group.
2. That Dr. Luk Van Parijs falsified the expression of different
proteins in flow cytometry dot plots in Figure 1, Immunity, 8:265-274,
1998, in Figure 1C, Immunity, 11:281-288, September 1999, and in Figure
5, Immunity 11:763-770, December 1999, by using portions of the same
dot plot to represent different cell populations expressing different
proteins. Specifically:
a. While at HMS/BWH, Dr. Van Parijs used portions of the same dot
plot to represent T cell populations expressing the 3A9 T cell receptor
and CD4+ (top panel) or CD8+ (bottom panel) in 3A9+ (wild type), in
3A9/lpr (Fas-), or in 3A9/gld (FasL-) transgenic
mice in Figure 1, Immunity 1998, where:
i. The CD4/3A9 dot plots for the 3A9+ and 3A9/gld transgenic mice
were the same, and the 3A9+ dot plot was a subset of the 3A9/lpr dot
plot;
ii. The CD8/3A9 dot plots for the 3A9+ and 3A9/lpr transgenic mice
were the same in the lower left and lower right quadrants, and the 3A9/
gld dot plot was a subset of the wild type dot plot
b. While at CalTech, Dr. Van Parijs used portions of the same dot
plot to represent the expression of hIL-2R[beta] and GFP in T cells
infected with WT or [Delta]355+8F IL-2R mutant in Figure 1C, Immunity,
September 1999, where the [Delta]355+8F dot plot was a subset of the WT
dot plot
c. While at CalTech, Dr. Van Parijs used portions of the same dot
plot to represent the expression of B220 and IgM in infected (GFP+) and
not infected (GFP-) spleen cells isolated from reconstituted mice in
Figure 5, Immunity, December 1999, where the Infected (GFP+) dot plot
for control mice was a subset of the Not Infected (GFP-) dot
plot for FLIP mice.
3. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs falsely claimed in the text of
RNA Interference Technology (Cambridge University Press, July 2004) and
in Figure 2 of Nature Genetics 33:401-406 (2003) that experiments
depicting the functional silencing of genes in hematopoietic stem cells
(HSCs) and in non-cycling dendritic cells by lentiviral-mediated RNAi
were performed, when they were not. Specifically, in Nature Genetics:
a. Figure 2b falsely showed the transduction of bone marrow-derived
dendritic cells infected with pLL3.7 Bim by flow cytometry, and
knockdown of Bim expression by Western blot
b. Figure 2d falsely showed the efficiency of pLL3.7 CD8 lentiviral
infection in HSCs by flow cytometry for GFP expression (left panel),
and falsely showed stable gene expression in progeny by flow cytometry
for GFP expression in spleen cells from chimeras derived from infected
HSCs (right panel)
c. Figure 2e falsely showed the reduction of CD8+ T cells in spleen
cells from chimeras derived from pLL3.7 CD8 infected HSCs (right panel)
and controls (left panel).
4. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs falsified figures in grant
applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a
presentation in 2003, and Figure 6A, Immunity 19:243-255 (2003), by
falsely claiming that the image in the figure represented an
immunoprecipitation assay for Ras-GTP and a Western blot for total Ras
protein, when it actually represented a Western blot for Bcl-2 and
[beta]-actin in T cells, previously published as Figure 5C, J.
Immunol., 168:597-603 (2002).
Dr. Van Parijs also admitted to falsification or fabrication of
data in multiple submitted manuscripts, grant applications submitted to
NIH, and presentations as follows.
5. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs admitted that in multiple
presentations and submitted manuscripts in 2004, he falsely claimed
that the bifunctional lentiviral vectors, U6-shRNA-rat insulin promoter
(RIP)-Myc had been made, when they had not, and that transgenic mice
carrying these lentiviral vectors with shRNA silencing Bim or Pten
proteins in pancreatic cells showed accelerated tumorigenesis and
death.
6. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs admitted that in multiple
presentations in 2003 and 2004 and in grant application R21 DK69277-01
submitted to NIH in 2003, he falsely claimed that the number of CD8+ T
cells and the incidence of diabetes was reduced by silencing CD8
expression with the pLL3.7 CD8 lentivirus in non-obese diabetic (NOD)
transgenic mice, when the NOD transgenic mice data did not exist.
7. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs admitted that in multiple
presentations,
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submitted manuscripts, and grant applications submitted to NIH in 2004,
he falsely claimed that transgenic mice had been generated with the
mono-functional lentiviral vectors with c-Myc, Ras or Akt under the
control of the CD4 promoter, when they had not, and that transgenic
mice had been generated with the bi-functional lentiviral vectors with
CD4-c-Myc, Ras or Akt- and U6-shRNAs targeting luciferase, Bcl-2, or
Bim proteins, when they had not. The effect of these misrepresentations
was the reported false conclusion that a cytokine-stimulated proto-
oncogene network regulated CD4+ T-cell survival and responses to
foreign and self antigens.
8. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs admitted that in presentations
and submitted manuscripts in 2004, he falsely claimed that mice
injected with plasmids carrying shRNAs for Bcl-2, Akt1 and Akt2,
complexed to polyethylene imine (PEI) showed a significant reduction in
c-myc-induced tumor growth, when the experiments had not been done.
9. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs admitted that in presentations
in 2004, he falsely claimed that shRNAs designed using algorithms
developed in 2004 were more effective to silence target genes than the
shRNAs designed with algorithms in 2002.
10. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs admitted that in multiple
presentations, submitted manuscripts, a grant application submitted to
NIH, and in the text of Current Opinions in Molec. Therapeutics, 6:136,
2004, he falsely claimed that an in vivo RNAi screen was developed to
identify genes in cytokine and apoptosis pathways that accelerated or
suppressed Myc-induced tumorigenesis in lethally irradiated mice, by
using bi-functional lentiviral vectors that expressed c-Myc under
control of the CMV enhancer-[beta]-actin promoter (CAG) and U6-driven
shRNAs designed to silence 168 selected genes, when the experiments had
not been done.
11. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs admitted that in a submitted
manuscript in 2004 and a grant application submitted to NIH in 2003, he
falsely claimed that with the use of retroviral vectors with Bim and
activated Ras, Akt or Myc, he showed that the IL-2-stimulated
activation of proto-oncogene pathways functioned to promote the
survival of T cells following antigen encounter by regulating Bim and
Bcl-2 pathways, when the experiments that were performed were
inconclusive.
Dr. Van Parijs has entered into a Voluntary Exclusion Agreement in
which he has voluntarily agreed, for a period of five (5) years,
beginning on December 22, 2008:
(1) to exclude himself from any contracting or subcontracting with
any agency of the United States Government and from eligibility or
involvement in nonprocurement programs of the United States Government
referred to as ``covered transactions'' pursuant to HHS' Implementation
(2 CFR Part 376 et seq.) of OMB Guidelines to Agencies on Government
wide Debarment and Suspension (2 CFR, Part 180); and
(2) To exclude himself from serving in any advisory capacity to
PHS, including but not limited to service on any PHS advisory
committee, board, and/or peer review committee, or as a consultant.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Director, Division of Investigative
Oversight, Office of Research Integrity, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite
750, Rockville, MD 20852, (240) 453-8800.
Dated: January 14, 2009.
Chris B. Pascal,
Director, Office of Research Integrity.
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