https://harvardmagazine.com/2020/01/lieber-arrest

CHARLES LIEBER, CHAIR of Harvard’s department of chemistry and chemical biology, and a University Professor, a designation bestowed on only the most eminent scholars, has been arrested, charged with misleading investigators from the Department of Defense about his work for a Chinese government-sponsored program designed to identify and financially support leading scientific researchers both in China and abroad. The U.S. government has characterized the program as a threat to national security.

An affidavit accompanying the criminal complaint in Boston further accuses Lieber of making false statements to the National Institutes of Health—a major funder of his research into nanoscale biological interfaces, such as transistors that can interact with intracellular biological machinery—as well as to Harvard itself, about his connections to the Thousand Talents program and the Wuhan University of Technology.

According to The New York Times, “Dr. Lieber has made no secret of his work with Chinese partners, joining five senior Chinese officials and scientists in 2013 to found the WUT-Harvard Joint Nano Key Laboratory at the Wuhan University of Technology.” He was recently named co-winner of the Welch Award, for pioneering work in nanoscience and nanomaterials.