# Findings of Research Misconduct

> Health and Human Services Department / Office of the Secretary · Federal Register notice 2010-31168 · published 2010-12-13



## Abstract

Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has taken final action in the following case: Sagar S. Mungekar, PhD, New York University School of Medicine: Based on the Respondent's written admission and set forth below, the New York University School of Medicine (NYUSOM) and the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) found that Sagar S. Mungekar, PhD, former MD/ PhD student in the Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at NYUSOM, engaged in research misconduct in research supported by National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), grants R01 GM35769, R01 GM55624, and T32 GM07308, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH, grant T32 AI007180. Dr. Mungekar admitted that in his PhD thesis he "increased statistical significance of the calculated means and standards of deviation [sic] of the UV spectrophometic [sic] data presented by discarding certain experimental data and thus presented


## What this is

A formal finding of research misconduct under 42 CFR part 93 (HHS) or equivalent agency policy. The respondent — a researcher — was found to have engaged in fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism of research data. The federal grant funds involved are typically identified, along with the administrative actions (debarment, supervised research, manuscript correction or retraction requirements).

## Key facts

- **Federal Register document:** 2010-31168
- **Title:** Findings of Research Misconduct
- **Publication date:** 2010-12-13
- **Issuing agency:** Health and Human Services Department / Office of the Secretary

## Primary sources

- Federal Register HTML notice: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2010/12/13/2010-31168/findings-of-research-misconduct
- PDF: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2010-12-13/pdf/2010-31168.pdf
- Raw text: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2010/12/13/2010-31168.txt

## Citation

> Health and Human Services Department / Office of the Secretary, "Findings of Research Misconduct", Federal Register notice 2010-31168, published 2010-12-13. Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-07-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/research-misconduct/2010-31168.

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