Protein chemist barred from US government funding for a decade
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Rebecca Trager2018-04-16T14:10:00
Former University of Alabama researcher found guilty of falsifying x-ray crystallographic data more than 10 years after red flags first raised
The US government’s Office of Research Integrity (Ori) has banned a well-known chemist from any involvement in government funded research for 10 years, more than a decade after his former university accused him of likely research misconduct and urged the retraction of several of his papers.
Protein crystallographer H M Krishna Murthy, formerly of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, falsified or fabricated x-ray crystallographic data for 11 protein structures in nine publications and in a dozen deposits he made to the Protein Data Bank, Ori announced on 10 April. The Protein Data Bank is a free worldwide repository of the 3D structures of large biological molecules, funded by US science agencies.