Former Harvard University Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department chairman Charles Lieber has been convicted on charges related to what law enforcement said was his failure to disclose his participation in some programs based in China, according to a news release from the US Attorneys Office in Massachusetts.
He had been accused of failing to disclose his involvement in the Chinese Thousand Talents Program and of failing to report income he received from Wuhan University of Technology.
Lieber’s lab at Harvard received more than $15 million in federal research grants between 2008 and 2019. Federal granting agencies generally require funding applicants to disclose any relationships with entities outside the United States.