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A former post-doctoral fellow at the McGovern Medical School, part of the University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center, admitted to committing research misconduct by “knowingly and intentionally falsifying, fabricating, and plagiarizing data and text” in six papers and eight manuscripts, according to the HHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI). In its Feb. 4
Federal Register notice, ORI said Yibin Lin “falsely created fictitious author names and affiliations without listing himself as an author to disguise himself from being the offender, and submitted them for publication in
bioRxiv and
medRxiv, open access preprint repositories, by falsely assembling random paragraphs of text, tables, and figures from previous publications and manuscripts to improve his citation metrics.”
“The greatest long-term threat to our nation’s information and intellectual property, and to our economic vitality, is the counterintelligence and economic espionage threat from China.”
Intro:
The counterintelligence and economic espionage efforts emanating from the government of China and the Chinese Communist Party are a grave threat to the economic well-being and democratic values of the United States.
Confronting this threat is the FBI’s top counterintelligence priority.
To be clear, the adversary is not the Chinese people or people of Chinese descent or heritage. The threat comes from the programs and policies pursued by an authoritarian government.
The Chinese government is employing tactics that seek to influence lawmakers and public opinion to achieve policies that are more favorable to China.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2020
The
U.S. Justice Department released the below information:
A
former Dublin, Ohio, man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to
conspiring to steal exosome-related trade secrets concerning the research,
identification and treatment of a range of pediatric medical conditions.
Yu
Zhou, 50, also pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud.
Zhou
admitted to conspiring to steal scientific trade secrets related to exosomes
and exosome isolation from Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Research Institute
for his own personal financial gain in China.
“Today’s
plea underscores the Department of Justice’s commitment to protecting American
Ohio Couple Sold Secrets to China
An Ohio man has admitted to conspiring with his spouse to steal scientific trade secrets from a children s hospital and sell them to the People s Republic of China.
Former Dublin resident Yu Zhou and his 47-year-old wife, Li Chen, confessed to establishing a company in China to personally profit from cutting-edge research work done at Nationwide Children s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
Zhou and Chen worked in separate medical research labs at NCH s Research Institute for 10 years each, Zhou starting his job in 2007 and Chen beginning hers in 2008.
The couple were arrested in California in July 2019 and charged with conspiring to steal exosome-related secrets concerning the scientific research, identification, and treatment of a range of pediatric medical conditions.
Imperial Valley News Imperial Valley News Center Man Who Worked At Local Research Institute For 10 Years Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Steal Trade Secrets, Sell Them In China Details Written by Imperial Valley News
Cincinnati, Ohio - A former Dublin, Ohio, man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Friday to conspiring to steal exosome-related trade secrets concerning the research, identification and treatment of a range of pediatric medical conditions.
Yu Zhou, 50, also pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud.
Zhou admitted to conspiring to steal scientific trade secrets related to exosomes and exosome isolation from Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Research Institute for his own personal financial gain in China.