Harvard’s chemistry head charged with fraud for hiding ties to Chinese institute
Nanoscience pioneer Charles Lieber faces up to five years in jail for failing to disclose millions in funding from China to US funding agencies
The chair of Harvard University’s chemistry department has been arrested for concealing his affiliation with the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China – worth millions of dollars – from his university and the US government agencies that funded his work. On 28 January, the US Department of Justice charged Charles Lieber, a pioneer in nanoscience and nanoelectronics, with one count of making ‘a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement’.