Can Our AIDS Research Donations Be Trusted? AIDS Researcher Lied For Years!

We need to start asking questions not just of our AIDS research donations, but all medical research donations, including breast cancer…

An Iowa State University assistant professor resigned after being accused of spiking rabbit blood to falsely show that an AIDS vaccine was working in the research animals.

Dr. Dong-Pyou Han was an assistant professor of biomedical sciences. He resigned in October after admitting responsibility, an ISU spokesman said.

The fraudulent results helped an ISU research team gain millions of dollars in federal money, according to Dr. James Bradac, who helps oversee AIDS vaccine grants for the National Institutes of Health.

Bradac said in a phone interview Monday that Han apparently added human blood components to the rabbit blood to skew experiments’ results. He said this was the worst case of research fraud he’d seen in his 24 years at the federal agency.

The human blood came from people whose bodies had produced antibodies to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, Bradac said. The presence of these antibodies in the rabbits’ blood made it appear that the vaccine was spurring the animals to build defenses against HIV.

“This positive result was striking, and it caught everybody’s attention,” Bradac said.

Federal documents released Monday show the rabbit-blood results were presented at numerous scientific meetings over several years. But researchers at other institutions became suspicious after they were unsuccessful in duplicating the ISU results.

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Oransky said he hoped federal prosecutors would look into the allegations that millions of taxpayer dollars were awarded based on lies.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20131224/NEWS/312240078/Iowa-State-University-researcher-accused-faking-AIDS-vaccine-test-results?nclick_check=1

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