{"id":196544,"date":"2024-09-22T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/penn-state-barred-embattled-professor-from-doing-research"},"modified":"2024-09-22T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T18:23:05","slug":"penn-state-barred-embattled-professor-from-doing-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/penn-state-barred-embattled-professor-from-doing-research","title":{"rendered":"Penn State barred embattled professor from doing research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/penn-state-barred-embattled-professor-from-doing-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania State University in May blocked a prominent professor at the school from doing research and making presentations on its behalf, Retraction Watch has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The professor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bme.psu.edu\/department\/directory-detail-g.aspx?q=dfk5267\">Deborah Kelly<\/a>, has faced mounting scrutiny over her work since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/medical-sciences\/people\/profile\/thomasmccorvie.html\">a researcher in the United Kingdom<\/a> noticed apparent data manipulation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.ads9451\">a now-retracted article<\/a> she published in 2017. Kelly earned her third retraction last week following a university probe that found \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2024\/09\/11\/penn-state-prof-earns-second-retraction-faces-third-following-university-probe\/\">serious data integrity concerns<\/a>\u201d in another paper, as we reported at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dr.-Deborah-Kelly-Statement9413593.1.pdf\">comments she made via her legal counsel<\/a> for that story, Kelly, a biomedical engineer and an expert in electron microscopy, told us:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania State University in May blocked a prominent professor at the school from doing research and making presentations on its behalf, Retraction Watch has learned. The professor, Deborah Kelly, has faced mounting scrutiny over her work since a researcher in the United Kingdom noticed apparent data manipulation in a now-retracted article she published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}