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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.”
Florida Professor Charged With Concealing China Ties From NIH
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A former University of Florida professor was indicted for allegedly concealing information related to a Chinese company he founded and other affiliations with Chinese entities from his employer and the National Institutes of Health, which funded his research with a $1.75 million grant.
The indictment alleges that Yin Lang, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, repeatedly made false statements to NIH and UF, and failed to disclose and concealed his conflicts of interest related to the NIH grant concerning his creation, and operation of, Deep Informatics, a Chinese company, and his application for, and participation in, the [People s Republic of China] Thousand Talents Program, which was sponsored by, and connected to, Northwestern Polytechnical University in China. The indictment alleges he sent himself a document in 2016 about Deep Informatics claiming that the company’s produc