[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 226 (Tuesday, November 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64966-64967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-31352]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary


Findings of Scientific Misconduct

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity 
(ORI) has made a final finding of scientific misconduct in the 
following case:
    Ms. Eileen Glennon, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's 
Hospital: Based on a report submitted to the Office of Research 
Integrity (ORI) by the Harvard Medical School (HMS) on June 30, 1998, 
as well as additional information obtained by ORI during its oversight 
review, ORI found that Ms. Glennon, former research technician, 
Endocrine-Hypertension Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), 
engaged in scientific misconduct arising out of certain biomedical 
research supported by a grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood 
Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and a grant 
from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), NIH.
    Specifically, Ms. Glennon fabricated data to plot standard curves 
while conducting radioimmunoassays to determine angiotensin II 
concentrations. When the assays appeared not to be working, which 
occurred in approximately half of the assays over a one year period, 
she used numbers from previous standard curves and then used the 
fabricated standard curve to determine the concentration of angiotensin 
II, thus producing false experimental results. Ms. Glennon cooperated 
fully with the institutional inquiry panel and admitted her acts.
    Ms. Glennon has accepted the ORI finding and has entered into a 
Voluntary Exclusion Agreement with ORI in which she has voluntarily 
agreed, for the three (3) year period beginning November 13, 1998:
    (1) To exclude herself from serving in any advisory capacity to the 
Public Health Service (PHS), including but not limited to service on 
any PHS advisory committee, board, and/or peer review committee, or as 
a consultant; and
    (2) That any institution that submits an application for PHS 
support for a research project on which her participation is proposed 
or which uses her in any capacity on PHS supported research, or that 
submits a report of PHS-funded research in which she is involved, must 
concurrently submit a plan for supervision of her duties to the

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funding agency for approval. The supervisory plan must be designed to 
ensure the scientific integrity of Ms. Glennon's research contribution. 
The institution also must submit a copy of the supervisory plan to ORI.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Acting Director, Division of Research 
Investigations, Office of Research Integrity, 5515 Security Lane, Suite 
700, Rockville, MD 20852, (301) 443-5330.
Chris B. Pascal,
Acting Director, Office of Research Integrity.
[FR Doc. 98-31352 Filed 11-23-98; 8:45 am]
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