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Investigators at the University of Pittsburgh have concluded that Pitt faculty member and stem cell researcher Gerald P. Schatten committed "research misbehavior" by seeking personal, professional and financial gains from research being conducted by since-disgraced scientific colleagues in South Korea.
In a bluntly worded nine-page summary of its findings, released yesterday, a university panel concluded that Schatten "likely did not intentionally falsify or fabricate experimental data" -- the kind of misconduct that his colleagues in Korea were recently found to have committed.
The Pitt investigators also found no evidence that Schatten was aware of the fraud his co-workers in Korea were undertaking. And they expressed appreciation for Schatten's prompt reporting of his suspicions to various authorities as he became aware that the work he had contributed to was untrustworthy.
But in uncompromising language, the panel said Schatten "shirked" his responsibilities as a senior author on two seminal research papers he published with the Koreans; exhibited a "lack of oversight and critical judgment"; sought out the "media spotlight" when the research appeared to be going well and then made a "concerted...
In a bluntly worded nine-page summary of its findings, released yesterday, a university panel concluded that Schatten "likely did not intentionally falsify or fabricate experimental data" -- the kind of misconduct that his colleagues in Korea were recently found to have committed.
The Pitt investigators also found no evidence that Schatten was aware of the fraud his co-workers in Korea were undertaking. And they expressed appreciation for Schatten's prompt reporting of his suspicions to various authorities as he became aware that the work he had contributed to was untrustworthy.
But in uncompromising language, the panel said Schatten "shirked" his responsibilities as a senior author on two seminal research papers he published with the Koreans; exhibited a "lack of oversight and critical judgment"; sought out the "media spotlight" when the research appeared to be going well and then made a "concerted...