BRITISH consultant diabetologist Paul Grant, who edited the British Journal of Diabetes from 2014 to 2016, is facing allegations by the General Medical Council that he fabricated research data.
Grant was also appointed editor in chief of Clinical Medicine, the journal of the Royal College of Physicians, before the allegations emerged but never took up the post.
At a four week hearing of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service that opened on 13 Mar, the GMC accused Grant of a range of research misconduct, including forging the signatures of coauthors, listing doctors who had not significantly contributed to papers as coauthors, and fabricating data.
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