UC ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS
I DENVER POLICIES AND
PROCEDURES RELATING TO
SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT
UC Denver I AMC policies and
procedures for scientific misconduct
CU policy:
Misconduct in research, scholarship, and creative
activities
Effective July 1, 2011
Available at:
http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/research/AboutUs/re
gcomp/researchethics/Pages/ResearchEthics.aspx
Responsible Institutional Officials
Research Integrity Officer – Dr. Alison Lakin
Chair of the Research Ethics Committee for UC
Denver I AMC – Dr. John Repine
Deciding Official – Dr. Richard Traystman
Definition of research misconduct
Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism and other
forms of misrepresentation of ideas, and other serious
deviations from accepted practices in proposing,
carrying out, reviewing, or reporting results from
research.
• Failure to comply with established standards
regarding author name on publications;
• Retaliation of any kind against a person who, in good
faith, reported or provided information about
suspected or alleged misconduct in research.
Follow on Definitions
• Fabrication is making up data or results and
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recording or reporting them;
Falsification is manipulating research materials,
equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data
or results in the research record;
Plagiarism is the appropriation of other person’s
ideas, processes, results, or words without giving
appropriate credit;
Misconduct in research does not include honest
error or differences of opinion.
Process flow when an allegation is received:
Resources
• UCD Research Ethics and Research Misconduct website:
http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/research/AboutUs/reg
comp/researchethics/Pages/ResearchEthics.aspx
• Alison Lakin – Research Integrity Officer – 303 724 1010 [email protected]
• John Repine – Chair CRE – [email protected]
• ORI website: http://ori.dhhs.gov
• ORI Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research
by Nicholas Steneck
• ORI DVD The Lab