Dr. Eric T. Poehlman Case Study

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Dr. Eric T. Poehlman was hired as a researcher and professor in 1996. He was am up and coming aggressive researcher who was leading the way with understanding metabolic rates as we age. He brought millions of dollars of grant and research money to the university of Vermont. Dr. Poehlman was accused of scientific misconduct by fabrication. He was found guilty, and sentenced to one year in prison, $180,000 in restitution, retraction of articles, and barred for life from receiving federal grants. DeNino, a lab technician in Dr. Poehlman’s lab was the whistleblower that brought the falsification of data to the University of Vermont’s attention. DeNino had been running analysis on the effects of aging of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and high density