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Update (March 25): Duke University has agreed to pay $112.5 million to the federal government to settle a lawsuit related to falsified research data used in grant applications, according to The Chronicle, the school’s independent newspaper.
On December 7, a judge will deliver the terms of a settlement between Duke University and a former employee who blew the whistle on the school’s knowledge of another researcher using fraudulent data in applications for millions of dollars of grant money, according to Science and Retraction Watch.
Joseph Thomas, a former Duke biologist, sued the university in 2015 under the federal False Claims Act (FCA), alleging that his supervisor Erin Potts-Kant used faked data in 60 grant applications worth some $200 million. The university might have to return up to three times that amount to the government under the federal law, with Thomas receiving 30 percent of ...
