A graduate student at Indiana University admits to falsifying data and figures in grant applications and journal articles, reports Writedit at the Medical Writing, Editing & Grantsmanship blog. The student, Emily Horvath, has entered into a three-year voluntary settlement agreement, saying that she will exclude herself from participating in US Public Health Service advisory or peer review committees, and that any grant application that she is a part of must include a plan of how her duties will be supervised. The Scientist notes that the papers that include the falsified figures, which appeared in Endocrinology and Molecular Endocrinology, are in the process of being retracted.
Writedit also reports that a former Wyeth researcher, Boris Cheskis, has accepted to a two-year agreement after Office of Research Integrity found that he falsified figures submitted to NIH.