[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 207 (Thursday, October 25, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54012-54013]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-26886]


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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) and the Assistant Secretary for Health have taken final action in 
the following case:
    David A. Padgett, Ph.D., The Ohio State University: Based on the 
report of an investigation conducted by The Ohio State University 
(OSU), the

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Respondent's admissions, and additional analysis conducted by ORI in 
its oversight review, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) found that 
Dr. Padgett, an Assistant Professor at the OSU College of Dentistry 
engaged in scientific misconduct in grant application 1 R01 AG20102-01 
submitted to the National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of 
Health (NIH).
    Specifically, PHS finds that Dr. Padgett plagiarized and 
misrepresented as his own research data for Figures 1 and 2 of this NIH 
grant application, data which represented unpublished experiments 
originally conducted by a researcher at another institution for a 
private company. The plagiarism was a significant misrepresentation 
because the data appeared in the preliminary results section of the NIH 
grant application. The respondent used these experiments, which were 
relevant to the proposed research, to support the request for funding.
    Dr. Padgett has entered into a Voluntary Exclusion Agreement 
(Agreement) in which he has voluntarily agreed for a period of three 
(3) years, beginning on October 4, 2001:
    (1) 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; and
    (2) That Dr. Padgett and any institution employing him are required 
to certify, in every PHS application or report in which he is involved, 
that all persons who contribute original sources of ideas, data, or 
research results to the applications or reports are properly cited or 
otherwise acknowledged. This requires Dr. Padgett and the institution, 
with respect to Dr. Padgett's contributions to the application or 
report, to certify that all individuals (both within and outside the 
institution) who contributed to the application or report are 
acknowledged. The institution must also send a copy of the 
certification to ORI.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Director, Division of Investigative 
Oversight, Office of Research Integrity 5515 Security Lane, Suite 700, 
Rockville, MD 20852, (301) 443-5330.

Chris B. Pascal,
Director, Office of Research Integrity.
[FR Doc. 01-26886 Filed 10-24-01; 8:45 am]
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