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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary

 

Findings of Scientific Misconduct

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity 
(ORI) has settled misconduct charges in the following case:
    John L. Ninnemann, Ph.D. On July 22, 1994, the Office of Research 
Integrity (ORI) settled scientific misconduct charges against John L. 
Ninnemann, Ph.D., formerly of the University of Utah and the University 
of California, San Diego, that will result in his retraction or 
correction of several articles related to immunosuppression. Although 
Dr. Ninnemann has not admitted guilt to ORI's allegations that he 
falsified and misrepresented scientific experiments in grant 
applications and publications in the 1970s and 1980s, he has agreed to:
    1. Be excluded from eligibility for all federal grants, contracts 
and cooperative agreements for three years.
    2. Be excluded from serving on any Public Health Service advisory 
committees, boards or peer review committees for three years.
    3. Submit letters of retraction for five scientific articles.
    4. Submit letters of correction for four additional scientific 
articles.
    Following the settlement, Dr. Ninnemann has submitted the required 
letters of correction and retraction and ORI entered the remaining 
administrative actions into the PHS ALERT System.
    Dr. Ninnemann submitted letters of retraction for the following 
five articles.

Ninnemann, J.L., ``Melanoma-Associated Immunosuppression Through B 
Cell Activation of Suppressor T Cells,'' Journal of Immunology, 120: 
1573-1579 (1978).
Ninnemann, J.L., Stockland, A.E., and Condie, J.T., ``Induction of 
Prostaglandin Synthesis-Dependent Suppressor Cells with Endotoxin: 
Occurrence in Patients with Thermal Injuries,'' Journal of Clincial 
Immunology, 3:142-150 (1983).
Ninnemann, J.L., ``Immunosuppression Following Thermal Injury 
through B Cell Activation of Suppressor T Cells,'' Journal of 
Trauma, Vol. 20, 3:206-213 (1980).
Ninnemann, J.L., Condie, J.T., Davis, S.E., and Crockett, R.A., 
``Isolation of Immunosuppressive Serum Components Following Thermal 
Injury,'' The Journal of Trauma, Vol. 22, 10:837-844 (1982).
Ninnemann, J.L. and Stockland, A.E., ``Participation of 
Prostaglandin E Immunosuppression Following Thermal Injury,'' The 
Journal of Trauma, Vol. 24, 3:201-7 (1984).

    Dr. Ninnemann submitted letters of correction for the following 
four articles:

Ninnemann, J.L. Ozkan, A.N. and Sullivan, J.J., ``Hemolysis and 
Suppression of Neutrophil Chemotaxis by a Low Molecular Weight 
Component of Human Burn Patient Sera,'' Immunology Letters, 10:63-69 
(1985).
Ozkan, A.N., and Ninnemann, J.L., ``Reversal of SAP-induced 
Immunosuppression and SAP Detection by a Monoclonal Antibody,'' The 
Journal of Trauma, Vol. 27, 2:123-6 (1987).
Ninnemann, J.L., and Ozkan, A.N., ``Definition of a Burn Injury-
induced Immunosuppressive Serum Component.'' The Journal of Trauma, 
Vol. 25, No. 2:113-7 (1985).
Ninnemann, J.L., and Ozkan, A.N., ``Immunosuppression Activity of 
C1Q Degradation Peptides,'' Journal of Trauma, Vol. 27, :119-122 
(1987).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Director, Division of Research 
Investigation, Office of Research Integrity, 301-443-5330.
Lyle W. Bivens,
Director, Office of Research Integrity.
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