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发帖数: 2005 | | c**********0
发帖数: 836 | 2 谁啊？肯塔基的要疯不是刚被逮捕吗。
【在 m*******h 的大作中提到】
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发帖数: 836 | 3 查到了，夫妻，被人告的。
The university announced Friday that it will seek the termination of
professors Xianglin Shi and Zhuo Zhang in the Department of Toxicology and
Cancer Biology in the College of Medicine as a result of the investigation.
UK has already fired research scientist Donghern Kim, who worked in Zhang's
lab.
UK officials say the two professors have been with the university for more
than 10 years, primarily in a lab research capacity.
An internal investigation at UK focused on seven grant proposals and 60
manuscripts. Officials say they found patterns of potential data
inconsistencies in many of them, leading them to uncover what they’re
calling false and fabricated data.
The faculty labs were shut down, and the three are not allowed to contact
the university or go on campus unless they are seeking medical care.
"As the University of Kentucky supports outstanding research to address
Kentucky's most significant and protracted challenges, we are committed to a
continual examination of our processes, policies, and procedures to protect
against research misconduct. Our research must be conducted in an ethical
and responsible manner, consistent with our published policies and standards
," UK Provost David Blackwell and UK Vice President for Research Lisa Cassis
said in a joint statement. "In the rare instances when researchers violate
our expectations and standards, the University will act forcefully and
without hesitation to investigate the misconduct, correct it, and take steps
to prevent a recurrence."
University officials confirmed with WKYT the topics of research were related
to the toxicity of metals.
A source outside the university alerted UK about the misconduct.
The university eliminated five staff positions because they were supported
by grants that have to be terminated.
University officials say they're also working with grad students who used
the labs. Several were reportedly close to graduating.
【在 c**********0 的大作中提到】
: 谁啊？肯塔基的要疯不是刚被逮捕吗。
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发帖数: 836 | 4 In a Friday morning letter to UK faculty and staff, Blackwell and Vice
President for Research Lisa Cassis said, “this matter involves a serious
breach of ethics fundamental to who we are as members of an academic
community.”
Only one other time in the last decade has research misconduct led to
faculty termination proceedings, the university said. In 2012, Eric J. Smart
, an associate professor and vice chairman of UK’s pediatrics department,
resigned after officials alleged he falsified data in at least 10 published
papers and multiple grant applications. He also was a Barnstable-Brown Chair
in Diabetes Research.
In the “rare instances when researchers violate our expectations and
standards, the university will act forcefully and without hesitation to
investigate the misconduct, correct it, and take steps to prevent recurrence
,” UK said in a statement.
The university’s investigation of Shi, Kim and Zhang began more than a year
ago, after it received an allegation that they had falsified data in a
grant application. In September, Cassis notified the trio they were being
investigated for a research misconduct allegation. In an academic setting,
research misconduct means material that’s fabricated, falsified or
plagiarized.
The investigative committee consisted of three faculty members: Dr. Sanda
Despa from the Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences; Dr.
Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences; and
Dr. Sidney Whiteheart of the Department of Molecular and Cellular
Biochemistry.
Committee members investigated roughly 60 papers, including grant
applications, that Shi, Zhang and Kim published between 2012 and 2018.
Nineteen — seven grants and a dozen published articles — were flagged and
investigated further by the committee.
Investigators found 109 pages of falsified or fabricated data, according to
a large report released by UK late Friday afternoon. Of the data requested
by and provided to the committee by Shi, Zhang and Kim, 117 pages were
falsified or fabricated.
The committee chided the trio for “an intentional effort to deceive” and a
“reckless handling” of data that was used for grants and publications,
calling the behavior a “systemic problem,” the report read.
In his response to the report, dated July 16, Shi said there were “several
flaws” in the committee’s findings, including how the committee issued its
findings “without providing any opportunity ... to express [our] views.”
Had that happened, he said, “most of these issues could have been addressed
.”
Many of the fabrications and falsifications the committee noted, he said,
were “honest errors or mistakes.”
He also criticized committee members for flatly accusing them of misconduct
“without considering the fact that students or postdocs performed the study
, analyzed the data, and generated the figures.”
Misconduct was first alleged publicly in October 2018, when Retraction Watch
noted Shi had retracted three papers from the Journal of Biological
Chemistry. The papers were about the cancer risks from toxic chemical
exposure. The article cited “image duplication” in his papers published
between 2014 and 2017.
At the time, Shi was heading a five-year, $7.4 million grant from the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish the UK
Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES). Its
aimed to identify environmental factors that negatively affect Appalachian
Kentucky residents’ health. The region has disproportionately high rates of
colorectal and lung cancer; cardiovascular disease; obesity; and diabetes.
Shi was removed Thursday as lead researcher of the center and replaced by
Ellen Hahn of the College of Nursing, who has been researchingconducting
research for the NIEHS grant since it was awarded in 2017. Shi was also
stripped of his titles as the William A. Marquard Chair in Cancer Research
and associate dean for research integration in UK’s College of Medicine.
In addition to fabricated information, UK’s investigation yielded several
examples of “irregularities” in the work from Shi, Zhang and Kim.
Repeatedly, Zhang, Kim and Shi demonstrated “significant departures from
accepted practices of research,” including their inability to provide
original data used for their research when it was requested by the
investigative committee, the university said.
Twice, when they provided information to the committee in response to a
question, the data was found to be falsified or fabricated.
The report triggered the shutting down of both faculty members’ labs on
Thursday, and included the elimination of five staff positions, the
university said. The federal Office of Research Integrity will decide the
status of the grants led by Shi and Zhang and whether or not further review
is needed.
Blackwell and Cassis said in a joint statement that the university is “
committed to a continual examination of our processes, policies, and
procedures to protect against research misconduct. Our research must be
conducted in an ethical and responsible manner, consistent with our
published policies and standards.”
Should Zhang and Shi not agree to resign, the charges against them will be
given to the UK Senate Advisory Committee on Privilege and Tenure for
further action, which could include a recommendation from UK President Eli
Capilouto that the couple be fired. UK’s Board of Trustees ultimately would
decide whether to accept that firing recommendation.
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: 查到了，夫妻，被人告的。
: The university announced Friday that it will seek the termination of
: professors Xianglin Shi and Zhuo Zhang in the Department of Toxicology and
: Cancer Biology in the College of Medicine as a result of the investigation.
: UK has already fired research scientist Donghern Kim, who worked in Zhang's
: lab.
: UK officials say the two professors have been with the university for more
: than 10 years, primarily in a lab research capacity.
: An internal investigation at UK focused on seven grant proposals and 60
: manuscripts. Officials say they found patterns of potential data
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发帖数: 1932 | | T****i
发帖数: 15191 | 6 又是生物医学。
【在 m*******h 的大作中提到】
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