July 14, 2006
Former Professor Gets One Year in Jail for Faking Data on Grant Applications
A former medical professor at the University of Vermont has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for fabricating research data on federal grant applications.
During the 1990s, the professor, Eric T. Poehlman, studied aging, menopause, and obesity — hot topics in medical research — and submitted 17 grant applications that were based on fabricated data, prosecutors said.
Dr. Poehlman pleaded guilty in March 2005 to lying on an application that won him
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