John Darsee
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John Darsee (born c. 1948) was a medical researcher with an impressive list of publications in reputable scientific journals but was found to have fabricated data for his publications.
Darsee had an excellent reputation as a student and medical researcher. He worked at Emory University from 1974 to 1979. He then moved to Harvard University, where he worked as research fellow at the Cardiac Research Laboratory. The head of the lab, Eugene Braunwald, considered Darsee the most remarkable of the 130 fellows who had worked at the lab and he offered Darsee a faculty position at Harvard.
Some colleagues who were suspicious about Darsee's results, however, caught him labeling data from one short measurement as if it had been data from several experiments collected over weeks. Over time, more research by Darsee came under fire. Investigations revealed that Darsee had previously used false data between 1966 and 1970, while an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame. Numerous abstracts and papers had to be retracted, including 8 papers published during Darsee's time at Emory and 9 papers from his Harvard time.
Darsee had to give up his research career and became a critical care specialist.
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