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Associated Press - Saturday, September 26, 1998
Dr. John L. Ho, 48, allegedly forced subordinates to falsify data in a grant application, used false claims to get another grant for $1.5 million, published a paper based on bogus experiments and threatened or penalized subordinates who found damaging evidence, the newspaper said.
Ho's work on a 10-year, $5 million federal grant to study AIDS in Haiti gives him a role in finding a vaccine for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
"My guilt or innocence has to be evaluated in the context of the whole current investigation," he said. "I don't believe I have intentionally conducted scientific misconduct."
The probe comes amid concern in the scientific community that increased competition for research dollars is providing greater incentive to commit fraud, the Times reported.
The inquiry, which began last month, focuses on projects involving experiments to determine how various microbes, including those of HIV, tuberculosis and parasitic diseases, affect the immune system. Dr. David Hajjar, dean of Cornell's Graduate School of Medical Sciences, will decide if a formal investigation is warranted. Ho is not related to another AIDS researcher, Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York.
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