Scientific research misconduct matters

Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School doctor found not responsible. Our client, a doctor at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, was found not responsible for engaging in research misconduct on allegations of plagiarism by a competing author.

Postdoc found not responsible for research misconduct. Our team represented a postdoc against allegations of plagiarism made by a former supervisor after a journal found textual overlap between a manuscript and other published work. Our client was found not responsible.

Harvard principal investigator exonerated. Our attorneys represented a prominent principal investigator in research misconduct allegations made by postdoctoral fellows, obtaining a full exoneration. We also represented the principal investigator in parallel civil litigation filed by the postdocs in federal court, obtaining a complete dismissal of the action.

Former Harvard principal investigator found not responsible on majority of allegations. Former Harvard principal investigator accused of research misconduct allegations and facing a civil false claims act investigation by the Department of Justice was found not responsible on the majority of the allegations. Our attorneys also settled the civil FCA investigation on favorable terms with no admission of liability and with the DOJ dropping the investigation with respect to two of the three grants.

Representation of Harvard M.D./Ph.D. student accused of research misconduct. We represented a Harvard M.D./Ph.D. student in a university research misconduct. The student successfully transitioned to a Ph.D. program at Oxford.

Anversa et al. v. Partners HealthCare System, Inc. et al. Our attorneys pursued an aggressive and creative legal strategy on behalf of two former Harvard researchers subjected to numerous due process violations during the course of an investigation into allegations of research misconduct committed by a subordinate at their innovative stem cell laboratory.