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Top US Cancer Center Moves to Terminate Staff Amid Spying Concerns2019-04-23A top cancer research center in the United States is taking steps to fire three scientists amid concerns that the Chinese government is trying to steal U.S. scientific research, according to U.S. media reports.The MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, took the action after receiving e-mails last year from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) outlining conflicts of interests or unreported foreign income linked to five of its faculty members, the Houston Chronicle reported in an article jointly produced with Science Magazine.The center said it had begun the process of terminating the contracts of three researchers, for fear of losing NIH funding, the paper reported.It said the NIH allegations come amid heightened concern in the U.S. that China and other foreign governments are exploiting U.S.-funded research for their own benefit, "enlisting students and visiting scholars to pilfer intellectual property from confidential grant applications, luring scientists to run 'shadow laboratories' in their countries."Read more at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/spying-04232019115715.html
Interesting.I haven't seen this in the local Houston news today.I'll check it at 10:00 pm.