Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/02
By: Yu Hsiao-han and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, April 2 (CNA) Academia Sinica President James C. Liao (廖俊智) said Monday the

James C. Liao (廖俊智)/CNA file photo

academic institution will examine research papers published in Taiwan by a former research fellow following accusations by a university in the United States that he falsified research data.

Liao was referring to a case involving cancer scientist Chen Ching-shih (陳慶士), a former director of Academia Sinica’s Institute of Biological Chemistry from 2014-2017, who has been accused of misconduct in the publication of eight academic papers from 2006-2014 during his tenure as a cancer researcher at Ohio State University (OSU) in the U.S.

According to an OSU report released last Friday, Chen was found guilty of “deviating from the accepted practices of image handling and figure generation and intentionally falsifying data” in 14 instances in eight papers, the American academic journal Science said on its website that same day.    [FULL  STORY]