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{{Short description|American academic}}
'''Steven A. (Tony) Leadon''' is a former professor of [[Radiation therapy|radiation oncology]] at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina]].

In 2003, a university found that Leadon had fabricated and falsified data in his research on [[DNA repair]]. <ref>[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7045/full/4351015a.html Retracted papers damage work on DNA repair], ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', '''435'''(1015), June 23, 2005) {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524153553/http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7045/full/4351015a.html |date=May 24, 2011 }}</ref> In 2006, the [[United States Office of Research Integrity]] came to the same conclusion, saying that "Leadon engaged in [[scientific misconduct]] by falsifying DNA samples and constructing falsified figures for experiments done in his laboratory to support claimed findings of defects in a DNA repair process that involved rapid repair of DNA damage in the transcribed strand of active genes, included in four grant applications and in eight publications and one published manuscript".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060907024902/http://ori.hhs.gov/misconduct/cases/Leadon.shtml Case Summary - Steven A. Leadon], ''Federal Register'', '''71'''(110), June 8, 2006 </ref>

In the wake of the investigations, papers have been retracted from several journals including ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'' and ''[[Mutation Research (journal)|Mutation Research]]'', while more articles were partially retracted from journals including ''[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]]'' and ''Molecular and Cellular Biology''.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

== See also ==
* [[List of scientific misconduct incidents]]

==External links==
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