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Iowa Professor Admits to Faking AIDS Vaccine Research to Score Federal Grant Money

Dec 27, 2013
1 min read

An Iowa State University professor resigned after admitting he falsely claimed rabbit blood could be turned into a vaccine for the AIDS virus.

Dr. Dong-Pyou Han spiked a clinical test sample with healthy human blood to make it appear that the rabbit serum produced disease-fighting antibodies, officials said.

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