The institutions found Alan Lichtenstein committed research misconduct by reusing images "to falsely represent the results" related to 26 pairs of experiments, according to a notice published in the Federal Register. At least one of the sets of images in each of the pairs "is inaccurate," the notice stated. Falsified data was found in at least 10 published articles.
Lichtenstein has received more than $10 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, and was also previously a professor of medicine in residence at UCLA Medical School.
The VA banned Lichtenstein from conducting research for the department for at least two years, and called for notifying the journals where the tainted articles appeared of the misconduct findings. Lichtenstein did not appeal the findings, according to the Federal Register notice.
