ABOVE: MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Update (May 31): MD Anderson Cancer Center says the last researcher under investigation has been cleared, according to Science.
MD Anderson Cancer Center has ousted three researchers for violating granting agency policies, reports the Houston Chronicle. Last year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) notified the center of five grantees there who were under investigation, reports the Chronicle. The senior researchers violated confidentiality of peer review and disclosure of connections to foreign countries, specifically China, according to Science.
Science confirmed that the three researchers are ethnically Chinese. Chinese American scientists have expressed concerns that the investigations and forced resignations may stem from racial profiling. “Scientific research depends on the free flow of ideas. Our national interest is best advanced by welcoming people, not by racial stereotyping based on where a person comes from,” Frank Wu of the Committee of 100, a leadership organization of ...
