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Date: Friday, June 21, 1996 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: HHS Press Office (202)690-6343
The Research Integrity Adjudications Panel appointed to hear the appeal of Dr. Thereza Imanishi-Kari from findings of scientific misconduct issued its decision today holding for Dr. Imanishi-Kari. This case involved a ten-year old dispute about data and results reported in a scientific paper co-authored by Dr. Imanishi-Kari with Nobel prize winner David Baltimore.
The Panel included two members of the Departmental Appeals Board at the Department of Health and Human Services, Judith A. Ballard and Cecilia Sparks Ford, and an independent scientist, Dr. Julius S. Youngner, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
The Department's Office of Research Integrity (ORI) had reopened its investigation of Dr. Imanishi-Kari after Congressional hearings were held about this paper in 1988 and 1989. In October 1994, ORI notified Dr. Imanishi-Kari that it was charging her with intentional and deliberate falsification and fabrication of experimental results and data and recommending adverse actions, including a ten-year debarment from eligibility for federal grant and contract funds.
To view, download, or print a copy of the decision, click on the following URL or visit the Departmental Appeals Board's homepage at: www.hhs.gov/dab/dab_home.html