[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 9, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 966-967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-42]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary


Findings of Research 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:
    Jong Hyuk Park, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh: Based on 
accumulated evidence including the University of Pittsburgh (UP) 
investigation committee report and additional analysis and information 
obtained by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) during its oversight 
review, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) found that Jong Hyuk Park, 
Ph.D., former postdoctoral fellow, Pittsburgh Development Center of the 
Magee-Womens Research Institute, UP, engaged in research misconduct in 
research funded by National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), 
National Institutes of Health (NIH), grant R24 RR13632 and National 
Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), NIH, grant P01 
HD047675.
    Specifically, Dr. Park:
    (1) Intentionally and knowingly falsified various versions of two 
figures in a manuscript entitled ``Rhesus Embryonic Stem Cells 
Established by Nuclear Transfer: Tetraploid ESCs Differ from Fertilized 
Ones'' that was being prepared for submission to Nature;

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    (2) Repeatedly misrepresented to the UP investigative panel the 
accuracy of one of the figures;
    (3) Presented the false figures as true to members of the 
laboratory; and
    (4) Falsified the record of revisions of the figures by deleting 
all prior versions from the laboratory server.
    ORI has implemented the following administrative actions for a 
period of three (3) years, beginning on November 29, 2006:
    (1) Dr. Park is debarred from any contracting or subcontracting 
with any agency of the United States Government and from eligibility or 
involvement in nonprocurement programs of the United States Government 
as defined in the debarment regulations at 45 CFR Part 76; and
    (2) Dr. Park is prohibited 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Director, Division of Investigative 
Oversight, Office of Research Integrity, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 
750, Rockville, MD 20852, (240) 453-8800.

Chris B. Pascal,
Director, Office of Research Integrity.
 [FR Doc. E7-42 Filed 1-8-07; 8:45 am]
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