January 30, 2020
Harvard University Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged in Three Separate China Related Cases
BOSTON – The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that the Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department and two Chinese nationals have been charged in connection with aiding the People’s Republic of China. Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested this morning…
January 9, 2020
ORI Makes Misconduct Finding Against Former NYU Psychiatry Professor
Without admitting wrongdoing, Dr. Alexander Neumeister, previously a professor of psychiatry and radiology at New York University School of Medicine, accepted a two-year governmentwide debarment for “knowingly, and/or recklessly falsifying and/or fabricating data in the clinical records of research” funded by a half-dozen National Institute of Mental Health grants, the HHS Office of Research Integrity…
December 13, 2019
Man Convicted of Falsifying Clinical Trials Data
A man from Richland, Washington, is facing life in prison after being convicted of 47 counts of fraud for staging clinical trials that purportedly enrolled dozens of subjects, and paid him and his two firms more than $5 million, William Hyslop, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, recently announced. From 2013 to…
January 24, 2019
UAMS Office of Research Compliance Receives Certificate of Appreciation for Institutionally Inclusive Challenge
January 18, 2019
Institutional Compliance Partners with Operational Support Services in the Intentionally Inclusive Challenge
November 19, 2018
FDA Issues Proposed Rule on IRB Waiver or Alteration of Informed Consent for Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations
In today’s edition of the Federal Register, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking entitled “Institutional Review Board Waiver or Alteration of Informed Consent for Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations.” FDA is proposing to amend its regulations to implement section 3024 of the 21st Century Cures Act. This proposed rule, if…
June 13, 2018
UAMS Course for Community Research Partners Available
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May 7, 2018
UAMS’s Amy Jo Jenkins elected President of the Society of Clinical Research Associates
Congratulations to UAMS’s own Amy Jo Jenkins on being elected President of the Society of Clinical Research Associates. https://www.socra.org/about/board-of-directors/2018-election-results/
April 27, 2018
Ohio State Reveals Resignation of PI for Misconduct
Six months after the fact, the Ohio State University announced that a research professor resigned amid a finding of “intentional” research misconduct; at the same time, Ohio State took the rare step of publicly releasing parts of its investigative report. Ohio State officials said Ching-Shih Chen, formerly a professor of medicinal chemistry and chair of…
April 13, 2018
Manifestly Untrustworthy’ Former UAB Researcher Debarred for 10 Years
Following a ruling in January by an administrative law judge, the HHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has debarred a former University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researcher for 10 years for misconduct that included falsifying data published in nine papers and deposited in a registry. In an April 10 notice on its website, ORI…