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The University of Kentucky will begin the termination process for Xianglin Shi and Zhuo Zhang of the Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology in the College of Medicine if they do not resign, according to a statement on the school’s press office website published on August 23. The internal investigation found that Shi, Zhang, and Donghern Kim, a staff research scientist, were “responsible for significant research misconduct in a number of scholarly papers.” Kim has already been fired.
The investigation began more than a year ago when the university received an allegation that Shi, Zhang, and Kim had falsified data in a grant application, reports the Lexington Herald-Leader. University of Kentucky (UK) administrators notified Shi and Zhang, a married couple, that they were under investigation for research misconduct in September 2018, according to the Herald-Leader. Three papers were retracted for image duplication, Retraction Watch reported in October ...
