• Home
  • Articles
  • COVID-19
  • News
    • Biotech News – Featured
    • Biotech News
    • BioGadgets
  • Interviews
    • Interviews – Academia
    • Interviews – Industry
  • Issues
  • Subscribe
  • Board
  • Advertise
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Trending
  • Prof Rajeev Varshney becomes the 4th Indian Agricultural Scientist to be elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
  • FABA holds Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance Stewardship Series
  • COVID no longer a global health emergency, WHO says
  • Chemist in India loses seven papers of biology, blames outsourcing of images
  • Indian Research scholars express frustration over DST’s tweet, plan stir
  • BioAsia 2023 to be held in February 24-26 in Telangana, India
  • Praj Industries and ESIIC partner to further bioeconomy in Egypt
  • Who is The Real Anthony Fauci? A true Doctor, liar, pharma profiteer or a totalitarian?
Biotech Express Magazine
  • Home
  • Articles
  • COVID-19
  • News
    • Biotech News – Featured
    • Biotech News
    • BioGadgets
  • Interviews
    1. Interviews – Academia
    2. Interviews – Industry
    Featured
    January 16, 20211

    Interview – Prof Rajeev K Varshney “The Youngest Indian Scientist (47)” who achieved an h-index of 100 recently

    Recent
    May 22, 2023

    Prof Rajeev Varshney becomes the 4th Indian Agricultural Scientist to be elected as Fellow of the Royal Society

    July 26, 2022

    We are making best hygiene solutions through Biotech applications: Dr Rachna Dave, founder MicroGO

    March 30, 2022

    Interview- Bioenergy: India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy started almost four decades ago…but did not catch up…, Professor Ashok Pandey

  • Issues
  • Subscribe
  • Board
  • Advertise
Biotech Express Magazine
You are at:Home»BioControversial»ICMR-NICED scientist has 16 papers with duplicated, manipulated images

ICMR-NICED scientist has 16 papers with duplicated, manipulated images

0
By Biotech Express on August 17, 2019 BioControversial, Biotech News

According to a post by Prasad Ravindranath, Posted on July 31, 2019, Dr. Mamta Chawla-Sarkar, a senior scientist at ICMR’s NICED has 16 papers listed on PubPeer for image duplication and/or manipulation. Six of these papers were published when she was a Post-doc in Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Science.

A senior scientist — Dr. Mamta Chawla-Sarkar — in Kolkata’s National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (ICMR-NICED) has 16 papers listed on PubPeer website for image duplication and/or manipulation. Besides the 16, a paper published in 2014 in PLOS ONE carries a correction for image duplication.

Ten papers listed on the website have been published when Dr. Chawla-Sarkar has been a scientist at NICED while the remaining papers were published when she was a Post-doc with Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.

All the papers with problematic images were verified by Dr. Elisabeth Bik, who is an expert in identifying duplication and manipulation in images. In addition, she had herself posted a few of Dr. Chawla-Sarkar’s papers with problematic images on PubPeer. In fact, on July 13, Dr. Bik did tweet one of Dr. Chawla-Sarkar’s manipulated images and asked if others could spot the manipulation.

Following the email interaction with her, the authors have responded on PubPeer for seven papers highlighted on the website. One of the responses is: “As authors, we have gone through the concern raised here. We would be communicating to the journal editor at the earliest with all the relevant data files.”

Though there is clear evidence of manipulation in many images, Dr. Chawla-Sarkar insists and vehemently denies image manipulation in any of her papers. Dr. Bik counters saying: “It is hard to imagine how duplicated bands within figures could have resulted by honest error.”

According to the NICED website, Dr. Chawla-Sarkar is “involved in studying two viruses namely influenza virus and rotavirus”. The focus of her research is “strain surveillance, host-virus interaction and identifying cellular proteins involved in viral pathogenesis for developing potential antiviral targets”. She oversees “influenza surveillance” in NICED and was “responsible for providing laboratory support for states in Eastern India during the A/H1N1 pandemic in 2009”.

In 2013, Dr. Chawla-Sarkar was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Science. She won the National Women Bioscientist Award given by the by Department of Biotechnology (DBT) in 2013. In recent years, she has won the ICMR Kshanika Oration Award 2017 and Fellowship of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (FWAST) 2018.

“As far as word image manipulation is concerned, I do not agree as we have not manipulated or fabricated any data. The blots are scanned predominantly by the scholars and assembled into final figure but why would they manipulate images when they have reproducible data. Repetitive background elements that are shown here might come from manual handling while developing and scanning and are completely unintentional. We were even unaware of these until pointed out by PubPeer,” she says in an email.

“I am sure that the conclusions in the papers are valid because we repeat [the] experiment multiple times before conclusion [sic]; each conclusion in the figure is validated by at least two or three different assays. When a paper is submitted, reviewers are not satisfied until we prove the conclusion by multiple assays. Moreover, I check the raw data autorads when the data is presented in lab meetings,” she adds.

Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email
Biotech Express
  • Website
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

ISSN: 2454-6968 | Biotech Express Magazine publishes articles in the field of biotechnology and allied sciences in a way that have never been presented earlier. It publishes Editorials, Guest Articles, Reports, Interviews, Current News of Govt. Academics and Business, Research Highlights and Notifications of Events, Jobs, Research Proposals in the field of Biotechnology, Biological Sciences, Life Sciences, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Neurosciences, Genetics, Medical Sciences, BioPharma etc.

Related Posts

Chemist in India loses seven papers of biology, blames outsourcing of images

Praj Industries and ESIIC partner to further bioeconomy in Egypt

$3 trillion growth reported for biotech sector in USA

Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

Current Issue – April 2023
Upcoming Event

                   VIEW SUBSCRIPTION PLANS

JOBS/NOTIFICATIONS

   

         CLICK HERE FOR RECENT NOTICES

Recent Posts
  • Prof Rajeev Varshney becomes the 4th Indian Agricultural Scientist to be elected as Fellow of the Royal Society May 22, 2023
  • FABA holds Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance Stewardship Series May 22, 2023
  • COVID no longer a global health emergency, WHO says May 18, 2023
  • Chemist in India loses seven papers of biology, blames outsourcing of images May 17, 2023
  • Indian Research scholars express frustration over DST’s tweet, plan stir May 16, 2023
  • BioAsia 2023 to be held in February 24-26 in Telangana, India January 10, 2023
  • Praj Industries and ESIIC partner to further bioeconomy in Egypt November 10, 2022
  • Who is The Real Anthony Fauci? A true Doctor, liar, pharma profiteer or a totalitarian? November 1, 2022
  • Guestorial: MALNUTRITION ACCELERATES THE METABOLIC AGE October 31, 2022
  • Event: Australia’s biggest week in biotech kicks off in Perth October 26, 2022
  • $3 trillion growth reported for biotech sector in USA October 25, 2022
  • Event : FABA’s Whale Tank Event – “Venture Capital – Biotech Start-up Connect” September 21, 2022
  • Vaccination, Rising Deaths, And The False Narrative September 20, 2022
  • Guestorial: Genome Mapping Techniques and its Application in Aquaculture September 19, 2022
  • Bombay HC Issues Notice To Bill Gates, Serum Institute, DGCI, Others Over Plea On Alleged ‘Vaccine Death’ September 5, 2022
  • Deaths due Covid-19 vaccines should be compensated by vaccine makers: Expert hope on Kerala HC remark August 21, 2022
  • Maker of Dolo-650, pandemic’s ‘magic pill’, faces income tax searches and PIL petitions August 20, 2022
  • Anthony Fauci, Controversial US Top-doc FINALLY, To Retire By Year-end August 20, 2022
  • SII’s Cervevac: The new DCGI approved vaccine without published clinical trial results August 20, 2022
  • Pitch your Start-up to National/International Venture Capitalists – first ever opportunity provided to Bio-Start-ups by FABA August 19, 2022
  • India’s Clinical Trial Registry might disappear soon and so the history of pharma record August 19, 2022
  • Nearly Half of Pregnant Women in Pfizer Trial Miscarried August 10, 2022
  • Researchers develop Cellulose shoes made by bacteria August 9, 2022
  • Biocon Sdn. Bhd. Enters Malaysia Book of Records as the First & the Largest Integrated Insulin Manufacturing Facility August 5, 2022
  • CBI Arrests of CDSCO officials, a Biocon official & Intermediaries in an alleged bribery case exposed Corruption in Govt and Pharma sector July 27, 2022
  • We are making best hygiene solutions through Biotech applications: Dr Rachna Dave, founder MicroGO July 26, 2022
  • EVENT HIGHLIGHTS: Genome editing as a novel technology for sustainable development July 24, 2022
  • US Military Doctor Testifies under Oath That She Was ORDERED To ‘Cover up’ COVID Vaccine Injuries July 24, 2022
  • Climatic Effect on Marine Biodiversity and their impact on coral reefs July 23, 2022
  • Highlights of India’s first Biotech startup Expo June 13, 2022
Archives
Categories
  • Articles
  • Articles- Editorials
  • Articles- Guestorials
  • BioControversial
  • BioEvents
  • BioGadgets
  • BioPolicies
  • BioResearch – Academic
  • Biotech News
  • Biotech News – Featured
  • Contents
  • Interviews
  • Interviews – Academia
  • Interviews – Industry
  • SARS- CoV2 & COVID-19 Updates
  • startups
About Us

Biotech Express Magazine publishes articles in the field of biotechnology and allied sciences in a way that have never been presented earlier. It publishes Editorials, Guest Articles, Reports,  Interviews, Current News of Govt. Academics and Business, Research Highlights and Notifications of Events, Jobs, Research Proposals in the field of Biotechnology and allied sciences like Biological Sciences, Life Sciences, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Neurology, Genetics, Medical Sciences, BioPharma etc.

Call us: _91-9311986177

Email – biotechexpressindia@gmail.com

About Us

About Biotech Express

Advisory and Editorial Board

Contact Us

Policy and Guidelines

Submission policies

Peer review policy    

Copyright policy

 

Follow Us
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
We use cookies to help provide and enhance our service and tailor content and ads. By continuing you agree to the use of cookies. Copyright © 2013-2020 Biotech Express except certain content provided by third parties.

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.