FINDING OF SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT

NIH GUIDE, Volume 24, Number 34, September 29, 1995



P.T. 34



Keywords:

  Ethics/Values in Science & Technol 

  Grants Administration/Policy+ 



Department of Health and Human Services



Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity (ORI)

has made final findings of scientific misconduct in the following

case:



Alan L. Landay, Ph.D., Rush-Presbyterian--St. Luke~s Medical Center:

Based on an investigation conducted by the institution, ORI found

that Alan L. Landay, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of

Immunology/Microbiology, engaged in scientific misconduct involving

two instances of plagiarism in publications related to two Public

Health Service (PHS) grants.



Dr. Landay has entered into a Voluntary Settlement Agreement with ORI

in which he has accepted ORI~s finding and, for the two (2) year

period beginning August 8, 1995, has voluntarily agreed to:



(1)  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; and



(2)  certify in every PHS research application or report that all

contributors to the application or report are properly cited or

otherwise acknowledged.  The certification by the Respondent must be

endorsed by an institutional official.  A copy of the endorsed

certification is to be sent to ORI by the institution.



ORI acknowledges that Dr. Landay cooperated with the institutional

investigation and the ORI review, accepted responsibility for his

actions, and appropriately corrected the scientific literature.  The

two published papers (Coon, J.S., Landay, A.L., & Weinstein, R.S.

"Advances in flow cytometry for diagnostic pathology."  Laboratory

Investigations 57:453-479, 1987; and Landay, A., Hennings, C.,

Forman, M., & Raynor, R.  "Whole blood method for simultaneous

detection of surface and cytoplasmic antigens by flow cytometry."

Cytometry 14:433-440, 1993) that contained plagiarized text have been

corrected (Landay, A.  Correspondence.  Laboratory Investigations

70:134, 1994; and Landay, A., Jennings, C., Forman, M., & Raynor, R.

Correction.  Cytometry 14:698, 1993).



INQUIRIES



Director, Division of Research Investigations

Office of Research Integrity

5515 Security Lane, Suite 700

Rockville, MD 20852

Telephone: (301) 443-5330



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