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A former post-doctoral fellow at the McGovern Medical School, part of the University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center, admitted to committing research misconduct by “knowingly and intentionally falsifying, fabricating, and plagiarizing data and text” in six papers and eight manuscripts, according to the HHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI). In its Feb. 4
Federal Register notice, ORI said Yibin Lin “falsely created fictitious author names and affiliations without listing himself as an author to disguise himself from being the offender, and submitted them for publication in
bioRxiv and
medRxiv, open access preprint repositories, by falsely assembling random paragraphs of text, tables, and figures from previous publications and manuscripts to improve his citation metrics.”
University of Florida Researcher Indicted for Scheme to Defraud National Institutes of Health and University of Florida Details Written by Justice Department
Jacksonville, Florida - A former University of Florida (UF) professor and researcher and resident of China has been indicted for fraudulently obtaining $1.75 million in federal grant money from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by concealing support he received from the Chinese government and a company that he founded in China to profit from that research.
Lin Yang, 43, who resided in Tampa, Florida, at the time of the offenses, is charged with six counts of wire fraud and four counts of making false statements to an agency of the United States. The indictment, returned by a federal grand jury on December 15, 2020, was unsealed today.
Updated: February 04, 2021 04:40 PM Created: February 03, 2021 04:37 PM
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A former University of Florida professor and researcher fraudulently obtained $1.8 million in federal grant money while concealing support he received from the Chinese government and a company that he founded in China to profit from that research, U.S. officials said.
An indictment unsealed Wednesday charges Lin Yang, 43, a Chinese citizen, with six counts of wire fraud and four counts of making false statements to an agency of the United States. A federal grand jury in Gainesville returned the indictment in December.
Yang traveled to China in August 2019 and hasn t returned to the U.S.
Former UF professor indicted for scheme to defraud the National Institutes of Health and UF
He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and $250,000 for each count of wire fraud Generic Crime 1.PNG Photo by Carley Noll | The Independent Florida Alligator
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted a former UF professor for fraudulently receiving $1.76 million in federal grant money from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance his company and research in China.
Lin Yang, 43, a former researcher and associate professor in UF’s biomedical engineering department, was charged with six counts of wire fraud, or internet fraud, and four counts of making false statements to a U.S. agency, according to the Department of Justice.