Retraction of “Hydrophilic Prodrug Approach for Reduced Pigment Binding and Enhanced Transscleral Retinal Delivery of Celecoxib”
Pradip Malik, Rajendra S. Kadam, Narayan P. S. Cheruvu, and Uday B. Kompella*
The authors retract the article “Hydrophilic Prodrug Approach for Reduced Pigment Binding and Enhanced Transscleral Retinal Delivery of Celecoxib”, Mol. Pharmaceutics 2012, 9 (3), 605–614, following a scientific misconduct investigation by the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, which concluded that the LC–MS data supporting Figures 3, 5, 6, and 7 were falsified by Rajendra Kadam to reduce variability in measurements, to produce smooth kinetics, or to create statistical differences. The fabrication of data related to these figures raises questions about the conclusions within the paper.