The FBI is on the hunt for Chinese spies working at some of America’s most prized research facilities. And they believe they’ve uncovered a married couple who were stealing from a children’s hospital
Share to facebookThe FBI is leading an investigation into Chinese researchers working at American hospitals, suspecting them of being pawns for China-backed espionage.Yu Zhou and Li Chen were a husband-and-wife team that had built their reputations on breakthroughs in cutting-edge medical therapies at Ohio’s elite Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Along the way, they’d also founded a Chinese company and sold it to a Nasdaq-listed biotech business worth more than $150 million.
Still employed by the hospital, in 2015, Zhou and Chen cofounded a new Chinese business, Beijing Genexosome. It uses exosome technology to carry out diagnosis and treatment. Beijing Genexosome is now under the control of Avalon GloboCare, which owns another company, Genexosome Technologies. Zhou was also named co-CEO of that latter company after it acquired Beijing Genexosome in 2017.
As part of the alleged conspiracy, Zhou and Chen also repeatedly shifted internal NCH emails containing information on research to their personal Gmail and Genexosome Tech accounts. And, the government claimed, the husband and wife knew that in sending such emails they may have violated intellectual property rights; one email sent by Chen that had Zhou copied in contained the NCH policy on intellectual property.
A spokesperson for the NCH said: “When we discovered this incident, we alerted the FBI and have been actively collaborating with them. We are grateful for their expertise throughout this process. We are unable to provide any specific details about the case.
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