Office of the Secretary July 9, 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Findings of Research Misconduct
Document Number: 2010-16824
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-07-09
Agency: Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
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: Gerardo L. Paez, PhD, University of Pennsylvania: Based on the reports of an inquiry and an investigation conducted by the University of Pennsylvania (UP) and analysis conducted by the ORI Division of Investigative Oversight (DIO), ORI found that Gerardo L. Paez, PhD, former postdoctoral fellow, Section of Medical Genetics, UP School of Veterinary Medicine, engaged in research misconduct in research supported by National Eye Institute (NEI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), awards R01 EY06855 and R01 EY13132. ORI found that the Respondent engaged in research misconduct by falsifying and fabricating retinal gene profile data that he purportedly obtained from three-week old normal dogs and dogs with X- linked progressive retinal atrophy. Specifically, ORI found that: 1. Respondent committed research misconduct by falsifying/ fabricating data for gene expression profiles in retinal tissue from three-week old normal dogs and dogs with X-linked progressive retinal atrophy in abstracts and poster presentations for the 2006 \1\ and 2007 \2\ Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) meetings and in an unsubmitted manuscript draft.\3\
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