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Former Brigham, Harvard cancer researcher fabricated data

By Carolyn Y. Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 31, 2012

A former research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School has been found to have fabricated and falsified data in a scientific manuscript that was accepted by a journal in 2008 but withdrawn in 2009, before publication. According to a report by the federal Office of Research Integrity, Jian Ma was found to have falsified or fabricated portions of multiple figures that compared different types of mouse lung cancer cells.

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