Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 9 (August 20, 2020) -
As part of its recent settlement with the Department of Justice regarding allegations of False Claims Act (FCA) violations, Lehigh University of Pennsylvania is...more
8/20/2020
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Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 7 (July 2020) -
NIH has opened its “initial data set and tools” in its All of Us research program to investigators under a new beta model that does not allow downloading of...more
6/29/2020
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Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 6 (June 2020) -
A former assistant veterinary medicine professor at the University of Maryland will retract or correct seven papers published from 2013 to 2016 that contained reused or...more
5/26/2020
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Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 4 (April 2020)
The Food and Drug Administration has accused a University of Michigan physician and professor of conducting research for more than three years after his approval from the...more
4/1/2020
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Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 3 (February 20, 2020) -
Despite its earlier agreement to repay just $5,442 in costs questioned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Inspector General, the University of...more
2/24/2020
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Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 3 (February 20, 2020) -
Institutions with federal research dollars, particularly from the National Science Foundation (NSF), know they may be subject to an audit by the funding...more
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 2 (January 23, 2020) -
- More than two years after Ozgur Tataroglu’s paper was retracted, the HHS Office of Research Integrity found that it and two grant applications contained...more
1/29/2020
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Report on Medicare Compliance 28, no. 36 (Oct. 14, 2019).
- NIH should “update its guidance on vetting peer reviewer nominees to identify potential foreign threats to research integrity” and “develop a risk-based approach...more
10/25/2019
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