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Researcher no longer working at University of Michigan amid falsified data charge
From Mlive.com, January 24, 2023
ANN ARBOR, MI - A University of Michigan researcher has been fired for falsified or fabricated data in multiple publications.
Dr. Chung Owyang, formerly a gastroenterology researcher in Michigan
Medicine, is no longer employed at UM as of Jan. 2, due to “research
misconduct,” said university spokeswoman Kim Broekhuizen.
UM also has requested that four different publications retract elements of
publications that relied on Owyang’s research into brains and hormonal
reactions.
“The University of Michigan is committed to fostering and upholding the
highest ethical standards in the conduct of research and scholarship,”
Broekhuizen said.
One of the retractions was made in the Journal of Neurophysiology and
three were made in the American Journal of Physiology’s Gastrointestinal and
Liver Physiology sections. Each retraction cited UM taking action against
Owyang’s “falsified or fabricated data.”
A complaint into Owyang’s work also has been sent to the U.S. Department of
Health of Human Services by the Maryland-based group Stop Animal
Exploitation NOW!. The complaint mentions that Owyang received $3.38 million
in research grant funding for his work, which involved testing on rats.
Allegations of research misconduct at UM are reviewed by a Research Integrity Officer employed by the UM Office of the Vice President for Research, Broekhuizen said.
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