‘It’ll define the 21st century and there’s only so much we can do at the federal level about it.’ U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is calling on state lawmakers to remain proactive against Chinese government influence, particularly within local governments and universities. Speaking to the Florida House Public Integrity…
Defendant will pay $2.6 million in restitution COLUMBUS, Ohio – A former Dublin, Ohio woman was sentenced in U.S. District Court today [February 1, 2021] to 30 months in prison for conspiring to steal exosome-related trade secrets concerning the research, identification and treatment of…
Santa Clara, California During Tuesday’s Stadium Authority meeting, the Board opted to continue adopting new guidelines for the conflict of interest code. These guidelines more clearly delineate who is subject to Political Reform Act regulation. The Forty Niners Management Company (ManCo) asked the Board to delay the item. Board Members…
More than 300 scientists and scholars are believed to have been recruited by talent recruitment schemes controlled by the Chinese Communist Party over the past decade, further raising concern Australian academics are giving Beijing access to their technologies and inventions. One professor who was working on drone research in Australia…
Defendant stole vials of biological research from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and attempted to take them aboard a flight to China. BOSTON – A Chinese national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for making false statements in connection with his theft of 19 vials of biological research.
Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (“USAO”), William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Mark J. Zielinski, Special Agent in Charge of the Eastern Field Office, National Aeronautics and…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Federal authorities arrested a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Thursday at his home in Cambridge for allegedly failing to report his ties to the Chinese government. Gang Chen, the Director of the MIT Pappalardo Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory and Director of the Solid-State Solar Thermal Energy Conversion…
Like a lot of big federal spending bills, the new coronavirus relief package is a grab bag of unrelated legislation. And one provision in the 5,593-page measure passed last month could lead to revealing conversations between employers and the brokers they rely on to find them the best deals on…
A new report by a congressional watchdog says U.S. agencies need to flesh out and clarify their policies for monitoring the foreign ties of the researchers they fund. The report, by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), is likely to spur efforts in Congress aimed at preventing China and other nations…
About 13% of research articles published in the top 10 most-cited nutrition journals in 2018 were backed by the food industry. And of those articles with food industry involvement, about 56% reported findings that were favorable to industry interests, according to a paper published in Plos One. Only about 10% of articles without…
