A former postdoc at the National Cancer Institute faked 15 figures and a movie in grant applications, presentations, a paper, and an unpublished manuscript, according to a federal watchdog.
and noted that the National Institutes of Health had found that the postdoc, Ritankar Majumdar, committed misconduct and faked data in two figures. without the faked data. The retracted paper has been cited 107 times, 13 of those after it was retracted, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science. The revised paper — which included Majumdar as a first author — has been cited eight times. stated that Majumdar agreed with the retraction but that he “disputes the NIH’s finding of misconduct.
But ORI found that Majumdar “engaged in research misconduct by knowingly or recklessly falsifying and/or fabricating data” in the 2016 in 2019 that was withdrawn, three grant applications for federal funds, and 15 presentations, including lab meetings. . The other two were not funded. ORI specifically found that Majumdar “knowingly or recklessly falsified and/or fabricated” images from an electron microscope, immunoblots, and, in the manuscript accepted but not published by “time-lapse confocal microscopic image data for nuclear envelope vesicle formation by falsely presenting still images in reverse order from the original movies.” (A similar paper was
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