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A second former medical researcher has been sentenced to serve time in federal prison for his part in a conspiracy to steal trade secrets from an Ohio children’s hospital and sell them to China.
Yu Zhou, a former medical researcher at Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Research Institute in Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced to serve 33 months in federal prison for conspiring to steal the institute s exosome-related trade secrets concerning the research, identification and treatment of a range of pediatric medical conditions, according to the Department of Justice. Zhou, who also was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, pleaded guilty to all the charges in December, prosecutors say.