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Researchers who sold secrets to China jailed for 30 and 33 months
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Posttime:2021-04-23
A RESEARCHER at an Ohio children's hospital has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for conspiring to steal trade secrets and sell them in China, reports the Associated Press.
Yu Zhou, 51, and his wife Li Chen, 48 (sentenced earlier to 30 months), who formerly lived in a Columbus suburb, further agreed to pay US$2.6 million in restitution and forfeit additional assets as a result of their convictions.
The pair conducted research in separate laboratories at Nationwide Children's Hospital's Research Institute in Columbus, each for 10 years.
Both have admitted to conspiring to steal exosome-related trade secrets and illegally transferring the information to China. Exosomes play a role in the research, identification and treatment of a range of medical conditions, including liver fibrosis, liver cancer and a condition found in premature babies known as necrotising enterocolitis.
source:Schednet
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