Neurosurgery Resident Plagiarized Research

A physician doing a residency at the University of Virginia Medical Center was caught copying sections of text and an illustration in multiple NIH-funded papers.

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The US Government's Office of Research Integrity has found that former University of Virgina Medical Center physician resident Jayant Jagannathan committed plagiarism in five published research papers reporting results of projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, according to an announcement last week in the Federal Register. Jagannathan's research explored the use of genomic and proteomic markers as hallmarks of a variety of neurological disorders, from glioblastoma multiforme (a type of brain tumor) to traumatic brain injury. The five papers containing plagiarized material were published from 2005 to 2009. Three of the five papers were retracted earlier this year, and one—a study on proteomic profiling as a way to diagnose and treat neurological disorders—has been "withdrawn," according to the website of the journal Neurosurgery, ...

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Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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