Florida doctor pleads guilty to clinical trial data fraud
A Miami physician has owned up to falsifying research data and patient participation figures for a pediatric asthma trial conducted from 2013 to 2016.
Yvelice Villaman Bencosme of Miami, Florida, has entered a guilty plea in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, in response to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Bencosme (who served as primary investigator for clinical purportedly conducted at the medical clinic Unlimited Medical Research in Miami) admitted that from approximately 2013 to 2016, she participated in a scheme to defraud an unnamed pharmaceutical company by fabricating the data and participation of subjects in a clinical trial at UM Research.