Santosh Katiyar

Santosh K. Katiyar is a former medical researcher at the UAB Department of Dermatology, UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, UAB Nutrition Obesity Research Center, and the Birmingham VA Medical Center. He has authored or co-authored more than 230 articles published in scientific journals.

Katiyar earned a master's degree in chemistry at Kanpur University in Kanpur, India in 1975 and a PhD in chemistry from Bundelkhand University in Jhansi in 1979. He completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in biochemistry at Allahabad University in 1982.

As a researcher, Katiyar studied the effects of nutritional compounds on cancer. His research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. He gained notice in 2005 for results that seemed to show a cancer-fighting benefit of polyphenols found in green tea. In 2012 he authored a paper which was published in the journal Carcinogenesis that presented evidence of benefits of a compound found in grape seeds in treating prostate cancer. After a reader contacted the journal to report indications of image manipulation in the article, the editor communicated with Katiyar, who admitted to "an error in presentation of data," and requested retracting the paper.

After that retraction was published, UAB and the Birmingham VA Medical Center began their own extensive review of Katiyar's other papers. He ended his employment at UAB in May 2017. In May 2018 it was announced that UAB would request that 20 of Katiyar's articles in various journals should be retracted based on its finding that images and conclusions appearing in them were "not substantiated by available data."

References

• Edgemon, Erin (May 24, 2018) "UAB asks for 20 papers by former professor be retracted from medical journals." The Birmingham News