U.S. Bars a Scientist From Receiving Funds for 10 Years

The federal government has barred a scientist at the University of Pennsylvania from receiving federal research funds for 10 years because he fabricated data in a previous job at Harvard Medical School. The government described the penalty as one of its harshest ever.

Evan B. Dreyer was accused of using the phony data in a grant application to the National Institutes of Health in 1996. At the time, he was a staff member at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary,

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