Texas Cancer Center Ousts 3 Over Chinese Data Theft Concerns

Texas Cancer Center Ousts 3 Over Chinese Data Theft Concerns
MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, on Oct. 1, 2018. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images
The Associated Press
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HOUSTON—A prominent cancer center in Houston has ousted three of five scientists whom federal authorities identified as being involved in the Chinese regime’s efforts to steal American research.

Peter Pisters, the president of MD Anderson Cancer Center, told the Houston Chronicle that the National Institutes of Health wrote to the cancer center last year detailing conflicts of interest and unreported foreign income by five faculty members, and gave it 30 days to respond.