World-class Chinese cancer researchers resigned for being suspected of spying, against the backdrop of China's exclusionism under the Trump regime


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mohamed hassan

Oni researcher Wu Sifen , director of MD Anderson Cancer Center at Texas State University , the world's top cancer hospital, has taken a 3-month interrogation from the FBI and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) It is reported that he resigned as director of the cancer center in January 2019. According to Bloomberg, the background behind Mr. Woo's resignation is the hardening US-China relationship, and there is growing concern that similar pressure may be exerted on Chinese researchers in the United States.

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Mr. Wu went to the United States in 1991 to obtain a doctorate in medicine from Shanghai Medical University. He later acquired American citizenship and continued his research on cancer. Wu is known for conducting cohort studies using data from hundreds of thousands of cancer patients in Asia and the United States, and has published many articles on lifestyle habits and the risk of developing cancer. It is known as one of the top cancer researchers in the world. The woman standing on the left in the picture below is Mr. Wu.



A Chinese researcher at the University of Wisconsin Medical University was arrested on economics spy charges for allegedly stealing laboratory-grade cancer drug data in 2013, and even within the MD Anderson Cancer Center since around 2014 The suspicion of Chinese scientists has come to be whispered. Since the summer of 2017, the FBI investigation has been filed at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, and researchers have been asked to submit all emails over the past five years. In addition, the FBI requested that the MD Anderson Cancer Center submit and search all network accounts.

Mr. Wu, who was the director of MD Anderson Cancer Center, was mainly examined about research activities and relationships in China for about three years before he traveled to the US, and Mr. Wu served as advisers at several medical institutions in China. It was considered as a problem that the research grant application document to NIH was disclosed to research assistant despite confidential information. According to Bloomberg, the interrogation report contained the words, 'Woo shared inappropriate confidential information', and 'Woo is a double oncology spy.' Also, Lawrence Tabak, senior deputy director of the National Institutes of Health, said, 'patented material is the source of intellectual property. In short, what Wu does is the idea of others It's about stealing, 'he said in the report.

However, the relationship between Mr. Woo and Chinese scientists was established at academic conferences and symposia, and having close relationships with foreign scientists is not only at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, which has an inherently open atmosphere. It was encouraged. In addition, cancer researchers generally share the latest data with researchers from other countries, and Adam Kuspa, director of research at Baylor College of Medicine I do not care about the


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Steven Saing

In response to the FBI's charges, Mr. Wu said, 'I certainly took on the position of an adviser or honor but did not get paid by the title alone.' 'Disclosing the application for grants to the assistant reduces the work burden as the director. 'For excuses.' However, Max Weber, director of compliance at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, concluded that he violated the MD Anderson Cancer Center's ethical policy, and developed a negative inference to Wu in the report. It seems to have done. As a result, Mr. Woo resigned as director of MD Anderson Cancer Center in January 2019, leaving her husband and children in the United States and became dean at the university in Shanghai, China.

According to Bloomberg, cases of FBI suspicion of economic spies on Chinese Americans have increased in recent years. According to the foreign media's Cardozo Law Review , 17% of the respondents accused of being an economic spy from 1997 to 2009 were Chinese or Chinese American, but the proportion was between 2009 and 2015 It has increased to 52%. Bloomberg notes that this is due to the growing Chinese exclusionism within the FBI.

In addition, since December 2018, China has been promoting a one-man plan to 'help Chinese researchers and engineers active at the forefront of the world to contribute to the development of science and technology in China,' The one-man plan is a major backlash in the United States as it steals intellectual property such as patents and confidential information. In particular, the FBI is said to be investigating based on the 1,000-man list, and in April 2019, FBI director Christopher Rey said in a foreign council that China 'We have led a social approach to stealing as much innovative discovery and technology as possible.' In fact, Mr. Woo had received two emails to this one-man plan. However, it is also recorded in the record that Mr. Woo sent back a refusal reply each time for the invitation of the plan of one thousand people.


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For Chinese Americans, it is only fear that China's exclusionism is advanced in the United States. Nancy Chen, a former federal official, said at a panel discussion on “The New Reality Facing Chinese-Americans” at the University of Chicago in March 2019 The situation is repeating history: Chinese Americans may be excluded as Japanese Americans were once excluded during World War II. Fear and worry are different things. ' You

The number of cancer patients in the world tends to increase year by year, and according to the World Health Organization (WHO) report in September 2018, it is said that one in six people will suffer from cancer as a whole. You are A budget of $ 1 billion (approximately 110 billion yen) has been invested in the ' Cancer Moonshot ' plan of the National Cancer Institute of 'find a cure for cancer by 2022'. 'Do not know the border' has been promoted to the tagline.

'I think there was a border around China,' said Bloomberg, saying that 'excessive Chinese exclusion precludes basic science, the basic research underlying new treatments. To find a cure for cancer 'The fight for researchers has been completely embroiled in the Cold War with China.'

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