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Form to Raise an Allegation Relating to Research Misconduct


IF you have a concern or allegation concerning the conduct of research at this institution that you feel meets the definition of research misconduct, please complete and submit this form.

IF you would prefer to talk confidentially to the Research Integrity Officer first, please call Alison Lakin at 303-724-0982


(You may write in "anonymous", but follow-up and investigation may be impossible, especially if not enough detail is given below.)

Definitions:

Fabrication is making up data or results and recording or reporting them;

Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results in the research record;

Plagiarism is the appropriation of other person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit;

Retaliation will be determined by the investigators, but certainly constitutes any actions or speech that create an adverse employment action, a hostile work environment, physical or verbal threat or damage to possessions or persons as a direct result of being a whistle blower or a participant in an investigation of misconduct.

(Misconduct in research does not include honest error or differences of opinion.)

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Pressing the submit button will send this information to University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus Research Integrity Officer, Alison Lakin.