A primate researcher in Texas has acknowledged fabricating data in a paper and two grant applications, but will not lose his job.
Deepak Kaushal, director of the Southwest National Primate Research Center at Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed), falsified the numbers of treated and untreated primates in a study published in 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Research Integrity said in a recent summary of an oversight review into Kaushal’s work.
The paper also fabricated other specifics, including the number of weekly doses of treatment administered to treat Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes tuberculosis, the office said….