By Sara Kropf This week, the Department of Justice announced that it was dropping charges against MIT professor Gang Chen. It had accused him of hiding his ties to China and indicted him for wire fraud, failing to report a foreign bank account, and making a false...
By Sara Kropf In Part 1, we reviewed the various rules in place that require research institutions and individual researchers to disclose financial conflicts of interest (FCOIs)—particularly financial support from foreign sources. The Department of Justice is taking...
By: Sara Kropf We've written before (see here, here and here) about the dangers of committing research misconduct, particularly for research that uses federal funds. Now there's a new danger. The federal government has recently started cracking down on institutions'...
By: Sara Kropf In Part 1 of this series, we described the various steps of the research misconduct life cycle. Today, we’re digging deeper into the early stage of a research misconduct case, so you know what to expect. More important, we’ll give you some suggestions...
By: Sara Kropf When are you accused of a crime, you can look up the statute that defines the crime and then your lawyer can research court cases that interpret it. All of that information helps to defend against the charges. This information can also help you...
By: Sara KropfWe’ve written about Office of Inspector General investigations several times (see here and here and here). But there’s a small component of OIG investigations that relate to scientific research misconduct. This is the first of multiple posts about...