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HHS Issues Debarment Notice for Misconduct by Philippe Bois

Jun 27, 2011

There's not much we can add to this post from Writedit at the Medical Writing, Editing & Grantsmanship blog. The post presents a notice from the US Department of Health and Human Services Debarring Official in which HHS reports that Philippe Bois, a former postdoc in the biochem department at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, was found to have "engaged in misconduct in science and research misconduct" -- specifically, that Bois "knowingly and intentionally falsified data reported in 2 papers."

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