Former Pitt Scientist Fabricated Data on Monkey Stem Cells, U.S. Probe Finds

The continuing saga of the South Korean stem-cell scandal has claimed another scientific career. An investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Research Integrity determined that Jong Hyuk Park falsified data while working at the University of Pittsburgh to clone rhesus-monkey embryos.

Mr. Park was a postdoctoral fellow at Pitt from August 2004 to February 2006, in the laboratory of Gerald P. Schatten, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive

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