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德州大学休斯顿健康科学中心助教授熊墨淼博士因剽窃、造假受处分

（方舟子编译）

    美国卫生与人力资源部公共卫生服务署（PHS）科研诚实办公室
（ORI）于2001年12月10日公布了对德州大学休斯顿健康科学中心助教
授熊墨淼博士剽窃、造假一案的调查结果和处理决定。

    熊博士承认：一、在提交美国国家卫生院（NIH）的资金申请报告中，
剽窃了别人的资金申请报告的内容，后者本来是让熊博士审核的。二、在
资金申请报告中伪造研究结果。

    ORI的处理决定：一、在一年之内，禁止熊博士申请政府科研基金。
二、在三年内，不能在政府学术委员会任职。三、在三年内，在有熊博士
参与的政府科研基金申请和其他报告中，熊博士本人及其所属单位必须书
面保证在引用他人的观点、数据或实验结果时，都做了恰当的说明，而且
保证报告中没有伪造、误导的内容。

    德州大学休斯顿健康科学中心的处理决定：一、熊博士必须向他所剽
窃的对象做书面的正式道歉。二、在一年内，熊博士不准以课题主持人的
身份向任何政府、私立机构申请科研基金，在提交任何文章供发表时，必
须由他本人及其上司签名保证供发表的文章中不包含任何剽窃、伪造或误
导的内容。三、一年之后的两年内，熊博士在提交任何基金申请或发表文
章时，必须做出类似的书面保证。四、在三年内，熊博士在提交任何资金
申请或发表论文时，必须附上由其上司签署的声明，声明其上司已审核了
其材料，未发现任何剽窃、造假或其他科学不正当行为。五、在下个学年，
熊博士必须选修一门关于科研道德的课程，在修完课程后的一年内，做为
共同主持人继续参与该课程的小组讨论。六、在两年之内，熊博士必须以
中、英两种文字，写一篇有关剽窃的正式文章，提交德州大学休斯顿健康
科学中心的常务副主任供发表。

FINDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT

Release Date:  December 10, 2001

NOTICE:  NOT-OD-02-018

Department of Health and Human Services

Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and the 
Assistant Secretary for Health have taken final action in the following case:

Momiao Xiong, Ph.D., The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston: 
On November 26, 2001, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) entered into a 
Voluntary Exclusion Agreement with The University of Texas Health Science 
Center at Houston (UTHSCH) and Momiao Xiong, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor at 
UTHSCH.  Based on the report of an inquiry conducted by UTHSCH, and any 
related actions and findings by UTHSCH, as well as additional analysis 
conducted by ORI in its oversight review, PHS found that Dr. Xiong engaged in 
scientific misconduct by plagiarizing and fabricating data in National 
Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), National Institutes of Health 
(NIH), grant application R01 GM64353-01, "Genetics of Human Pigmentation and 
Skin Response" (Pigmentation Application), on which he was a co-investigator. 
The plagiarized and fabricated data were essential to the scientific validity 
of the proposed research and were important for NIH's scientific evaluation of 
the Pigmentation Application.  Dr. Xiong has admitted his actions.

Specifically, PHS and UTHSCH found that Dr. Xiong:  (1) plagiarized text from 
another researcher's grant application, which Dr. Xiong had obtained during 
the NIH confidential review process and used without appropriate citation in 
the Pigmentation Application; and (2) falsified research in the Pigmentation 
Application by (a) falsely claiming that he had performed an extensive series 
of simulations to evaluate the power to detect genes influencing pigmentation 
traits by the proposed statistical analysis, and (b) falsely representing 
estimates from previous work on unrelated individuals as being appropriate for 
large families in the proposed research.

The Voluntary Exclusion Agreement (Agreement) states that Dr. Xiong:

(1)  will not serve as a principal investigator on PHS grants for one (1) 
year, beginning on November 26, 2001;

(2)  will exclude himself from serving in any advisory capacity to PHS, 
including but not limited to service on any PHS advisory committee, board, 
and/or peer review committee, or as a consultant for a period of three (3) 
years, beginning on November 26, 2001;



(3)  agrees that he and any institution employing him are required to certify, 
in every PHS application or report in which Dr. Xiong is involved: (a) that 
all persons who contribute original sources of ideas, data, or research 
results to the applications or reports are properly cited or otherwise 
acknowledged; and (b) that the applications or reports do not contain any 
falsified, fabricated, or misleading information, for a period of three (3) 
years, beginning on November 26, 2001.  This requires Dr. Xiong and the 
institution, with respect to Dr. Xiong's contributions to the application or 
report, to certify that all individuals (both within and outside the 
institution) who contributed to the application or report are acknowledged.  
The institution must also send a copy of the certification to ORI; and

(4)  accepts the following UTHSCH administrative actions: (a) Dr. Xiong must 
send a formal, written apology to the principal and co-investigators 
explicitly acknowledging his plagiarism from their grant application; (b) for 
a one year period starting October 11, 2001, Dr. Xiong may not: (i) submit, as 
a principal investigator, any new grant applications, including applications 
to any federal, state, or local government agencies, as well as any private 
foundations or agencies; or (ii) submit any publications without providing 
certification, co-signed by his immediate supervisor, that any manuscript for 
publication does not contain any plagiarized information or any falsified, 
fabricated, or misleading information; (c) for an additional two year period, 
Dr. Xiong must similarly certify any grant application or publication; (d) for 
the next three years, to submit any grant application or publication, Dr. 
Xiong must have a signed statement from his immediate supervisor stating that 
the supervisor has reviewed the materials and finds no indication of 
plagiarism, falsification or fabrication of data, nor any other form of 
scientific misconduct; (e) for the next academic year, Dr. Xiong is required 
to participate in a course in the responsible conduct of research, and in the 
year after completing the course, serve as a co-instructor in a small 
discussion group for all breakout sessions of the course; and (f) within two 
years, Dr. Xiong must write a formal essay, of publication quality, in English 
and Chinese, on plagiarism for submission to the Executive Vice President for 
Research, UTHSCH, and for publication.

INQUIRIES

For further information contact:

Director
Division of Investigative Oversight
Office of Research Integrity
5515 Security Lane, Suite 700
Rockville, MD  20852
Telephone:  (301) 443-5330
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