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2025-08-27 Fifth Column
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Appalling allegations made against Chinese doctor working at Houston hospital
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 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.
But, according to the affidavit, he was receiving funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and secretly doing research for Chongqing Medical University.
Following his arrest, Li confessed in a sworn statement to police that he stole the research because he felt his work was 'going to waste', according to the affidavit.
He insisted the research 'is a product of my efforts over the last three years. I believe I have a right to possess and retain this data'.
Li said he downloaded 90 gigabytes of research data when the project was about 70 percent complete, and uploaded it to Chinese cloud service Baidu.
When administrators at the Houston lab confronted him, he convinced them he had deleted the data while concealing it on the Baidu server.
The rogue researcher then abruptly quit on July 1 and began preparing to go back to China to continue the project at Chongqing Medical University.
Yunhai Li, 35, is accused of trying to steal sensitive research from an American medical lab and flee the country
He claimed his boss there had contacted the NIH and MD Anderson administrators on his behalf to get permission for him to continue the project in China, but hadn't heard back.
Li wrote that he feared the request would be denied, so he stole the data.
'Li added that he was hoping that CBP would not discover this information on his electronics,' the affidavit said.
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said Li could face further charges.
The two existing counts were to stop him fleeing to China, he said.
'We were able to detain him as he was trying to get on a flight to China,' he said.
'There was a pretty good chance that he was going to get deported or leave the country - so we needed to file something.
'We needed to make sure that he was going to stay here, the information was going to stay here, and he was going to be held accountable.
'We're not done with the investigation in this case. We know we have enough to get past probable cause, but we have a lot of avenues we have to go down to make sure that everyone involved is held accountable.'
The affidavit revealed Li is also under federal investigation and could face federal charges of wire fraud, theft of federal funds and abuse of official capacity.
Li faces two to 10 years in prison and fines up to $10,000 for the state felony charge alone and another year for the misdemeanor charge.
He was released on $5,000 bail and ordered to surrender his passport.
MD Anderson said it was 'working with relevant authorities'. 
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