Notice is hereby given that on April 2, 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Debarring Official, on behalf of the Secretary of HHS, issued a final notice of debarment based on the findings of research misconduct made by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) against H.M. Krishna Murthy, Ph.D., former Research Associate Professor, Department of Vision Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Murthy engaged in research misconduct in research supported by U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) grants, specifically National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), grants R01 AI051615, R01 AI032078, and R01 AI045623; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH, grants P01 HL034343 and R01 HL064272; and National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), NIH, grant R01 DK046900. The administrative actions, including ten (10) years of debarment, were implemented beginning on April 2
A formal finding of research misconduct under 42 CFR part 93 (HHS) or equivalent agency policy. The respondent was found to have engaged in fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism of research data. The federal grant funds involved are typically identified in the FR notice, along with the administrative actions (debarment, supervised research, manuscript correction or retraction requirements).