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Dr Li, who had worked at MD Anderson Cancer Centre since 2022, had been part of a team developing a vaccine aimed at preventing the spread of breast cancer. Authorities said he resigned from his position on July 1 and then transferred the nearly completed research to a server in China. He now faces potential federal charges for attempting to smuggle protected research materials.

For context, MD Anderson is a nonprofit university that is also one of the largest cancer treatment centers in the world. Also, it's widely considered the best.

"Houston is proudly home to some of the most groundbreaking medical institutions in the world - publicly funded centers that are saving lives each day thanks to their innovative research," District Attorney Sean Terre said in a statement.

This is a research institution, not a pharma company. I don't understand how abandoning a cancer treatment project so you can sell the data in your home country is a "heroic act".

Fuck, maybe Nedry is this guy's hero, I don't know

Well the United states defunded cancer research. So why does this matter?

If only we could kick out all non-whites and beat our wives again, this country would be perfect...

• Republicans, unironically.

Why is any cancer research confidential?

Ultraracism is when a Chinese national is accused of stealing research after being caught stealing research?

When the project was approximately 70% finished, Li said he had taken up to 90 GB of research. When confronted by hospital officials, Li said he worked to convince them that he had permanently deleted the material while concealing it through a China-based cloud company.

Multiple U.S. entities, including the Department of Defense and the National Institute of Health, have federally funded Li's research. As a condition of such work, documents show Li signed several forms acknowledging it was confidential, with strict rules around storage and sharing.

The forms also stated Li did not have relationships with foreign institutions overlapping his MD Anderson responsibilities and was not receiving outside financial compensation.

However, Li wrote that he retained his employment at a Chinese state-affiliated hospital while working at MD Anderson.

"When I accepted a post-doctoral position at MDACC in 2022, I retained my employment position at the First Affiliated Hospital. The First Affiliated Hospital continued to pay me a reduced salary through 2023 and has held my employment position there pending my return from the United States," he wrote.

Charging documents state Li published research for the Chinese hospital while working at MD Anderson and received grant funding from the Chinese government.

On July 1, Li resigned from his position at MD Anderson. Days later, federal authorities stopped him at Bush Airport, reportedly in possession of the material.

Charging documents state Li told investigators he planned to permanently return to the state-affiliated hospital and use the purportedly stolen material for continued research.

Despite acknowledging that MD Anderson would likely publish the work in the near future, Li reportedly told investigators he felt it was "going to waste"

USA doesn’t need science anyway.

Hey Jenny, Where’s the torrent?

Steal shit. Get caught stealing shit.

"Rayyyyyyyy-sizzzim!"

Yunhai Li, 35, was originally detained at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston in on July 9 after federal agents found medical records on his laptop during an inspection ahead of his flight to China, according to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.

Now Houston prosecutors have charged the researcher with theft of trade secrets, which is a third-degree felony, and tampering with a government record, a misdemeanor. He could also face federal charges in the future.

Since 2022, the MD Anderson Cancer Center had employed Li where he was working on a vaccine to prevent breast cancer from spreading, the New York Post reported.

Li reportedly was working on a scholar exchange visa from the U.S. Department of State. The National Institutes of Health and the Defense Department was funding the research.

Yeah, Breast cancer sucks, but the Chinese Government is a much bigger existential threat and their spies should be properly made example of.