Chinese accused of stealing biomed research from U.S. labs, universities
The Trump administration is alerting scientists and universities who have received NIH funding that their research, most of it at U.S. universities, is vulnerable to Chinese spies…
Some of the thieves are Chinese graduate students and visitors who steal from U.S. laboratories, then hand that material to Chinese scientists and operatives working for the government there. Some scientists who received funding also had labs in China, and took funds from Beijing, unbeknownst to the NIH or the universities with which they were affiliated.
The data thieves are giving their ill-gotten spoils to Beijing and have snatched biomedical secrets from confidential grant applications.
There’s a name for these thieves – “non-traditional collectors of information…”
https://www.foxnews.com/science/chinese-stealing-biomedical-research-from-u-s-labs-and-universities