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University of Michigan researcher leaves after publishing falsified data
From WLNS.com, January 24, 2023
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A professor at the University of Michigan
has been fired for “research misconduct” and the university has reached out
to multiple medical journals to retract the implicated studies.
University spokesperson Kim Broekhuizen confirmed with News 8 that Dr. Chung
Owyang, a gastroenterology researcher with Michigan Medicine, was fired on
Jan. 2.
According to nonprofit group “Stop Animal Exploitation Now!” an internal
investigation by the university found that Owyang worked on four studies
that included falsified or fabricated data. Those studies used more than $5
million in federal grants.
According to the National Library of Medicine, the four impacted studies
were published between 2004 and 2012. Overall, the four studies were cited
by 75 other research projects.
“The University of Michigan is committed to fostering and upholding the
highest ethical standards in the conduct of research and scholarship,”
Broekhuizen said in a statement. “U-M’s Office of the Vice President for
Research employs a Research Integrity Officer responsible for addressing and
assessing allegations of research misconduct. All allegations of research
misconduct are thoroughly reviewed for appropriate next steps.”
SAEN has called for a “full investigation of these University of Michigan
publications and all associated authors.
“It is even worse that hundreds of rats were subjected to highly invasive
procedures and killed for fraudulent experiments. This project took the
lives of animals to produce data that was, according to the University of
Michigan itself, falsified,” SAEN Executive Director Michael Budkie said in
a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of
Research Integrity. “At the end of the investigation I am certain that the
events surrounding these retractions will be judged to constitute research
misconduct. A multi-year pattern of fabricated/falsified data involving many
of the same staff in multiple publications would appear to be intentional.”
Of the four publications in question, one co-author has worked on all four
studies, while another worked on three of the four and another worked on two
of the four.
News 8 has reached out to the university to see if those researchers are
being investigated for any misconduct and whether they will face any
punishment.
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