UK agency to combat research misconduct

An agency to combat biomedical research misconduct in the United Kingdom is scheduled to start work in October, initially for three years, it was announced last week.

Plans for the new body, known as the UK Panel for Health and Biomedical Research Integrity, were unveiled at the annual meeting of the Committee on Publication Ethics by John Pritchard, senior planning and policy adviser at Sheffield Hallam University.

Universities UK, an organisation that promotes the work …