‘I was shocked’: Con­tro­ver­sy brews at Emory af­ter promi­nent Chi­nese neu­ro­sci­en­tists are oust­ed over dis­clo­sure is­sues

It’s what Chi­nese sci­en­tists work­ing in the US have been dread­ing since MD An­der­son oust­ed three of its Asian fac­ul­ty mem­bers fol­low­ing NIH-di­rect­ed in­ves­ti­ga­tions: A sec­ond pres­ti­gious in­sti­tu­tion has closed down a promi­nent lab and ter­mi­nat­ed the two Chi­na-born re­searchers head­ing the lab.

The news, com­ing out of Emory Uni­ver­si­ty, is once again stir­ring up in­dig­na­tion, be­wil­der­ment and anx­i­ety among Chi­nese aca­d­e­mics and ne­ti­zens alike, not least be­cause the oust­ed pro­fes­sors have gone pub­lic with their side of the sto­ry, ques­tion­ing how the school han­dled the fir­ing, dis­put­ing ac­cu­sa­tions and ex­press­ing their wor­ry. As a con­se­quence, sev­er­al post­docs from Chi­na work­ing in their lab have al­so been asked to leave the coun­try.

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