FINDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT 

NIH GUIDE, Volume 25, Number 13, April 26, 1996

 

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

cases:

 

Jamal Z. Farooqui, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati College of

Medicine (UCCM):  Based on an investigation conducted by the

institution as well as information obtained by ORI during its

oversight review, ORI found that Jamal Z. Farooqui, Ph.D., Research

Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology at UCCM, committed

scientific misconduct by plagiarizing material in a Public Health

Service (PHS) grant application from an application another

researcher had submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Dr. Farooqui received the NSF application from another faculty member

at UCCM while that application was undergoing confidential peer

review.  Dr. Farooqui included the plagiarized material in the

"Prospective Significance" and "Methodology" sections of his

application entitled "Proopimelanocortin expression in human

epidermis," submitted to the National Institute of Arthritis and

Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.

 

Dr. Farooqui has entered into a Voluntary Exclusion Agreement with

ORI in which he has voluntarily agreed, for the three year period

beginning April 3, 1996:

 

(1) that he is required to certify in every PHS research application

or report that all contributors to the application or report are

properly cited or otherwise acknowledged, that an institutional

official must endorse the certification, and that the institution

must send a copy of the certification to ORI; 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.

 

No scientific publications were required to be corrected as part of

this Agreement.

 

Danya J. Vardi, Harvard Medical School:  Based on an investigation

conducted by the institution as well as information obtained by ORI

during its oversight review, ORI found that Danya J. Vardi, former

Harvard Medical School Research Associate in Psychology in the

Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center

and former part-time Research Assistant at the Cambridge Hospital,

committed scientific misconduct.  ORI found that Ms. Vardi fabricated

subject responses regarding recall and recognition of words having an

emotional valence in research supported by a Public Health Service

(PHS) grant entitled "Psychophysiologic study of child abuse imagery

in adults" at the Manchester New Hampshire VA Research Center.

 

Ms. Vardi has entered into a Voluntary Exclusion Agreement with ORI

in which she has agreed to exclude herself voluntarily, for the three

year period beginning March 28, 1996, from:

 

(1) contracting or subcontracting with any agency of the United

States Government and from eligibility for, or involvement in,

nonprocurement transactions (e.g., grants and cooperative agreements)

of the United States Government, as defined in 45 C.F.R. Part 76

(Debarment Regulations); and

 

(2) 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.

 

The above voluntary exclusion, however, shall not apply to Ms.

Vardi~s future clinical training or practice whether as a student,

resident, fellow, or licensed practitioner, as the case may be,

unless that practice involves research or research training.

 

No scientific publications were required to be corrected as part of

this Agreement.

 

INQUIRIES

 

For further information, contact:

 

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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