Neuroscientist Li Xiao-Jiang, who has pleaded guilty to not paying U.S. taxes on income earned from Chinese institutions, worked at Emory University.
By Jeffrey MervisThe saga of an Emory University neuroscientist who was fired in May 2019 after an investigation into his ties to China ended last week in a federal court.
But the sentencing of Li Xiao-Jiang sheds little light on the politically explosive issue of foreign influences on U.S. research that has roiled the scientific community for the past 2 years.Emory fired Li, a tenured faculty member, and his wife, Li Shihua, for “failing to fully disclose” his connections to Chinese research institutions through that country’s Thousand Talents program.