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HOUSTON, TEXAS - 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.
Li was released at the time, before he was arrested Friday.
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.
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