Developmental geneticist Terry Magnuson has resigned as vice-chancellor for research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after a federal investigation found evidence of plagiarism in one of his National Institutes of Health grant applications.
Magnuson agreed to step down from his position days after the investigation was publicly disclosed, admitting that he copied online text into a grant application, according to Times Higher Education. Retraction Watch reports that today (March 11) is his last day in the post.
On March 8, the US federal government’s Office of Research Integrity (ORI) posted the findings of its investigation of Magnuson’s grant application, which he submitted last March to the NIH and the National Cancer Institute. The plagiarized text came from two guides, material from a company that makes sequencing kits, and a review article, according to a Retraction Watch post from earlier this week.
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