A primate researcher in Texas has admitted to fabricating data in a paper and two grant applications but won’t lose his job.
Deepak Kaushal, director of the Southwest National Primate Research Center at Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed), falsified the numbers of treated and untreated primates in a study published in 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Research Integrity said in a recent summary of an oversight review into Kaushal’s work.
