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Last week the National Institutes of Health released the results of a yearlong investigation into Darsee's misconduct; it announced that he would be barred from receiving federal grant funds and contracts for ten years, the harshest penalty for fraud it has ever imposed. The NIH report not only documented Darsee's abuses at Harvard, but also raised serious doubts about the veracity of research he had carried out earlier at Emory...
...NIH also sharply criticized Darsee's supervisors at the Harvard-affiliated Cardiac Research Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital for failing to report promptly their initial suspicions about Darsee's work. The young researcher was assigned to a project funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and aimed at developing animal models for assessing the effectiveness of drugs used to treat heart attacks. Charged NIH Associate Director William Raub: "A large and costly study of great importance for a major public health problem was irrevocably compromised." Harvard was asked last week to return...
...worth of data. Kloner informed Braunwald, who terminated Darsee's fellowship and notified Medical School Dean Daniel Tosteson. But Braunwald accepted Darsee's plea that this was his sole offense. Unwilling to destroy the career of what he called "an apparently brilliant researcher," Braunwald did not inform NIH officials. Instead, he and Kloner conducted their own audit of Darsee's work and supervised him closely during the next few months. They uncovered no evidence of further misconduct...
Besides establishing the committee, the NIH statement outlines the responsibility of the Faculty of Medicine to the Harvard and scientific communities, the importance of maintaining high medical standards, and the necessity of protecting the rights of individuals, including the person who is alleged to have engaged in the misconduct and the person who has made the allegation...
...NIH denied BWH's request that the hospital's part of the four center studs in which the falsified data were included be repeated. They also called for BWH to return the funds awarded it for the study