WIKIMEDIA, GALLO & SPERO LLPThe Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has reached a settlement agreement with cancer biologist and biochemist Phillippe Bois, who was found guilty of research misconduct in 2011 and barred from applying for federal grants for 3 years. Bois filed a lawsuit to the District Court to overturn the penalty, and the subsequent settlement means he is eligible to apply for federal research funding—though he will no longer seek to appeal the ORI’s findings, according to an announcement published yesterday (April 18) in the Federal Register.
“I have been fighting to clear my name for almost 7 years, and I am glad to be able to put this matter behind and to move on with my career in science,” said Bois in a statement released by his defense attorneys. “ORI’s decision to cease seeking a debarment is a clear signal to me that its findings would not have been sustained by a judge and that its proposed punishment, a three-year debarment, was excessive and unreasonable.”
In May 2011 the ORI found that Bois had committed two counts of research misconduct while working at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee: he had falsified an image to conceal unwanted results for a paper in the Journal of Cell Biology, which was ...
