Research misconduct in a grant application for the National Institutes of Health

What is this about?

The US Public Health Service found that a researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago had carried out research misconduct in relation to the legend and related text for a figure contained in their National Institutes of Health grant application.

Why is this important?

In their NIH grant application, the researcher falsely claimed that a figure represented preliminary results of their independent experiments, which differed from the source of the figure and the prior research in the field.