Appalling allegations made against Chinese doctor working at Houston hospital
A Chinese
cancer doctor has been accused of trying to steal sensitive research from an American medical lab and take it back to his home country.
Yunhai Li, 35, was stopped by customs officials at Houston Airport on July 9 as he tried to board a flight back to
China.
On his laptop, investigators found research on a breast cancer vaccine he was developing.
The 35-year-old has now been charged with theft of trade secrets, a felony, and tampering with a government record, the Harris County District Attorney's Office said.
Li entered the US on a scholar visa and had been working at the University of
Texas MD Anderson Cancer Research lab in Houston as a postdoctoral fellow since 2022.
The vaccine research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense, technically making Li a government employee.
Li signed a non-disclosure agreement when he joined the lab and said he didn't have foreign research affiliations or funding.
But, according to the affidavit, he was receiving funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and secretly doing research for Chongqing Medical University.
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Yunhai Li, 35, is accused of trying to steal sensitive research from an American medical lab and flee the country
Cancer researcher Yunhai Li, 35, was stopped at Houston Airport on July 9 as he tried to board a flight back to China.
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