m***a
发帖数: 13878 | 1 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21150598-wu-and-chen
A Chinese scientist living in San Diego and working to develop an mRNA
cancer vaccine gave her scientist husband confidential data from her
employer so he could “further” his own vaccine research at his lab in
China, a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in Southern California federal
court alleges.
Last May, Chenyan Wu arrived at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on a
flight from Shanghai with as many as 1,000 undeclared, improperly packaged,
and unlabeled centrifuge tubes containing research samples, the filing
states. Wu’s luggage also held “multiple containers of lab chemicals,”
which border officers believed were “potentially hazardous.”
When the FBI interviewed Wu, he told agents he had been running a cancer
research company in China for the past 10 years called TheraMab, according
to the complaint. Wu and his wife, Lianchun Chen, had a home in San Diego,
and Wu explained that he had shut down his Chinese operation to continue his
cancer research at a new lab he planned to establish in California.
By that time, Wu and Chen had been on the feds’ radar for more than a year,
according to the complaint against them. In December 2019, the FBI “found
a Powerpoint presentation on the cell phone of a Chinese Defendant, who had
previously pled guilty to export control violations,” states the complaint
against Wu and Chen. “The presentation was in Mandarin. Once translated,
the cover page of the packet read: ‘TheraMab’s mRNA Cancer Vaccine Project
,’ presented by Chenyan Wu. The presentation outlined TheraMab’s company
structure and investment plan and summarized its mRNA research process.”
Wu had been utilizing proprietary research from an unnamed company that Chen
had improperly divulged, according to the feds. Both Wu and Chen are each
now facing one felony count of making false statements about the
confidential data. Wu is also charged with smuggling, stemming from the
incident at Sea-Tac.
Pharmaceutical trade secrets are in high demand. Last month, Pfizer filed a
lawsuit against employee Chun Xiao Li, accusing the associate director of
statistics of pilfering more than 12,000 confidential files and documents,
including ones pertaining to the company’s COVID-19 vaccine, as she
prepared to leave for a job with a competitor. Earlier this year, Merck’s
director of immuno-oncology was arrested for allegedly stealing “thousands
of files containing [Merck’s] proprietary information, including research
protocols, compound data, [and] strategic plans.” In July,
two former Genentech scientists, Xanthe and Allen Lam, pleaded guilty to
stealing company secrets related to a series of cancer and cystic fibrosis
drugs and leaking them to a Taiwanese biotech startup for which Xanthe had
been working covertly.
During a search of Wu’s email account, FBI agents “identified multiple
emails” between Wu and his wife, Lianchun Chen, over the course of roughly
five years. Some of the messages included documents marked “CONFIDENTIAL”
by a company identified in the complaint only as “Company A.”
In one instance, Wu allegedly sent a message to Chen via his Hotmail account
, saying, “I need new vector sequences and sequence [sic] to be cloned.”
Chen responded with a Microsoft Word document “which included DNA sequence
data consistent with the research that Chen had been working on for Company
A at the time,” the complaint states.
In another, Wu allegedly received a PowerPoint attachment and a Word
document from Chen to his Hotmail account, which he then forwarded to his
TheraMab email. The PowerPoint was titled “PCR Results with Q5 and Pfx,”
and was marked “[Company A] CONFIDENTIAL,” according to the complaint. The
Word document was titled “Work Weekly Update May 21-27,” and included “
an update of Chen’s work…for the past week and the work Chen planned to
achieve the following week.”
A third example laid out by prosecutors allegedly contained a PowerPoint
presentation from Company A’s Vaccine Research & Development unit, also
marked “CONFIDENTIAL.”
“Company A is investigating whether the attachments to these emails would
qualify as trade secrets,” the complaint states. “A Company A
representative did note that the work that Chen and her group were
conducting at Company A would be extremely useful to Wu’s TheraMab's
project of developing a generic mRNA vaccine.”
The company confirmed that Chen worked there from 2011 until Sept. 9, 2021,
and “conducted mRNA cancer vaccine research.” Wu had also worked for the
company in the U.K. from 1999 to 2010, but did not work on mRNA research,
according to the complaint. Company officials told the FBI that the
attachments Chen sent to Wu “mirrored some of the work” she did for the
company.
Chen had been “very involved in…mRNA cancer research,” developing
proprietary DNA vectors for use in vaccines, the filing continues. Company A
employees, including Chen, received annual training on the importance of
confidentiality in their research,” it says. “Nonetheless, Chen could have
downloaded Company A confidential information onto a thumb drive, printed
out copies or taken pictures of it with her phone, and removed it from the
premises.”
In late 2019, Chen allegedly sent a text message, in Chinese, to an unnamed
recipient. According to the FBI’s translation, it read: “Do you have
friends who are interested in investing drug production? My husband is
looking for investors. He has designed a medicine that uses RNA method to
treat cancer. Animal test result is pretty good. More money is needed to
move forward. Contact me if you want to know more.”
When the feds interviewed Chen in April 2020 at the San Diego home she
shares with Wu, she denied having authored the research paper FBI agents
found on Wu’s cell phone. The agents warned her that lying to a federal
agent was a felony. Still, Chen insisted that mRNA vaccines were not her
area of expertise, and that open-source information about mRNA was available
in published papers, the complaint says, adding that she “conceded that
her group at Company A was working on an mRNA project but minimized her role
.”
Chen said she “only worked on a small part of the project and did not
conduct any research or analysis,” it continues. “She maintained that she
solely worked on the DNA/molecular structure part, which was at the very
beginning. Once she did her part, the research was passed on for others to
work on the next step. She did not review the results of the program trials
and was not part of developing any research. She maintained that she had not
disclosed any of that research to Wu.”
FBI agents questioned Wu at least three times, according to the complaint.
He claimed to have garnered all of his research and knowledge about mRNA
vaccines from publicly available sources. From 2017 on, Wu was developing a
“generic vaccine, while Company A’s mRNA project focused on a specific
type of cancer,” the complaint says. He told agents that Chen hadn’t
shared any information with him about Company A’s research, and besides—
she “did not have the skills or training to work on TheraMab’s mRNA
project.”
Wu and Chen do not yet have lawyers listed in court records, and were unable
to be reached for comment. | h****e
发帖数: 1 | 2 关键是不要用微软和谷歌的邮件系统
被扫描也不要用联想的，卖国
自己搭一个服务器吧。 | s***o
发帖数: 1234 | 3 他们要是和你一样直接和洛杉矶领事馆联系就不会出事了。
【在 h****e 的大作中提到】
: 关键是不要用微软和谷歌的邮件系统
: 被扫描也不要用联想的，卖国
: 自己搭一个服务器吧。
| e*n
发帖数: 1511 | 4 感觉是想海归，然后公司在中国没成功，所以又归海。结果被抓了。你再怎么搞也不能
自己运一堆试管啊
: 我看了半天，觉得是从中国偷东西到美国。
: 带那么多试管来美国，谁都怕，万一有个病毒怎么办？
| k**********4
发帖数: 16092 | 5 is it the one who stole from pfizer or a different one
,
【在 m***a 的大作中提到】
: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21150598-wu-and-chen
: A Chinese scientist living in San Diego and working to develop an mRNA
: cancer vaccine gave her scientist husband confidential data from her
: employer so he could “further” his own vaccine research at his lab in
: China, a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in Southern California federal
: court alleges.
: Last May, Chenyan Wu arrived at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on a
: flight from Shanghai with as many as 1,000 undeclared, improperly packaged,
: and unlabeled centrifuge tubes containing research samples, the filing
: states. Wu’s luggage also held “multiple containers of lab chemicals,”
| h****e
发帖数: 1 | 6 关键是email被扫描了。
。。
其实盯一段时间没有啥东西也就放过了。。
妈的，太脑残。
老婆回家也可以交流
用美国的邮件服务器
傻逼啊
: 感觉是想海归，然后公司在中国没成功，所以又归海。结果被抓了。你再怎么搞
也不能
: 自己运一堆试管啊
【在 e*n 的大作中提到】
: 感觉是想海归，然后公司在中国没成功，所以又归海。结果被抓了。你再怎么搞也不能
: 自己运一堆试管啊
:
:
: 我看了半天，觉得是从中国偷东西到美国。
:
: 带那么多试管来美国，谁都怕，万一有个病毒怎么办？
:
| d*c
发帖数: 1226 | 7 菌斑哪位小将？
Education
University at Buffalo
University at Buffalo
Dates attended or expected graduation1993 – 1998
Xiamen University
Xiamen University
,
【在 m***a 的大作中提到】
: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21150598-wu-and-chen
: A Chinese scientist living in San Diego and working to develop an mRNA
: cancer vaccine gave her scientist husband confidential data from her
: employer so he could “further” his own vaccine research at his lab in
: China, a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in Southern California federal
: court alleges.
: Last May, Chenyan Wu arrived at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on a
: flight from Shanghai with as many as 1,000 undeclared, improperly packaged,
: and unlabeled centrifuge tubes containing research samples, the filing
: states. Wu’s luggage also held “multiple containers of lab chemicals,”
| s***o
发帖数: 1234 | 8 正是这种同志牺牲自己才能给你家做掩护。国内却疫苗吗？其实就是一个幌子，他们是
为了保护你拿到的光刻机技术资料主动牺牲自己
【在 h****e 的大作中提到】
: 关键是email被扫描了。
: 。。
: 其实盯一段时间没有啥东西也就放过了。。
: 妈的，太脑残。
: 老婆回家也可以交流
: 用美国的邮件服务器
: 傻逼啊
:
:
: 感觉是想海归，然后公司在中国没成功，所以又归海。结果被抓了。你再怎么搞
: 也不能
| s********e
发帖数: 11693 | 9 此人一看面相就是小地方出来的，这种人有时为了名利什么事都做得出来
: 菌斑哪位小将？
: Education
: University at Buffalo
: University at Buffalo
: Dates attended or expected graduation1993 – 1998
: Xiamen University
: Xiamen University
: ,
【在 d*c 的大作中提到】
: 菌斑哪位小将？
: Education
: University at Buffalo
: University at Buffalo
: Dates attended or expected graduation1993 – 1998
: Xiamen University
: Xiamen University
:
: ,
| h****e
发帖数: 1 | 10 扯蛋
上海人
学习不好
: 此人一看面相就是小地方出来的，这种人有时为了名利什么事都做得出来
【在 s********e 的大作中提到】
: 此人一看面相就是小地方出来的，这种人有时为了名利什么事都做得出来
:
:
: 菌斑哪位小将？
:
: Education
:
: University at Buffalo
:
: University at Buffalo
:
: Dates attended or expected graduation1993 – 1998
:
: Xiamen University
:
: Xiamen University
:
: ,
| e*******e
发帖数: 9616 | 11 应该跟我差不多，一线农村长大
矮矬穷
尼玛，讲了多少遍了，这样抓数据最后害死还在美国职场苦苦挣扎的索南 | x*******o
发帖数: 378 | 12 中国的科学技术进步就是靠千千万万这样的人偷回家的 | a*****s
发帖数: 1 | 13 啥叫一线农村？房山？青浦？
【在 e*******e 的大作中提到】
: 应该跟我差不多，一线农村长大
: 矮矬穷
: 尼玛，讲了多少遍了，这样抓数据最后害死还在美国职场苦苦挣扎的索南
| e*******e
发帖数: 9616 | 14 二环外，青浦，龙岗盐田，天河沙河
【在 a*****s 的大作中提到】
: 啥叫一线农村？房山？青浦？
| O**********g
发帖数: 3962 | 15 这傻叉为什么要回美国？
,
【在 m***a 的大作中提到】
: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21150598-wu-and-chen
: A Chinese scientist living in San Diego and working to develop an mRNA
: cancer vaccine gave her scientist husband confidential data from her
: employer so he could “further” his own vaccine research at his lab in
: China, a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in Southern California federal
: court alleges.
: Last May, Chenyan Wu arrived at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on a
: flight from Shanghai with as many as 1,000 undeclared, improperly packaged,
: and unlabeled centrifuge tubes containing research samples, the filing
: states. Wu’s luggage also held “multiple containers of lab chemicals,”
| h****e
发帖数: 1 | 16 国内瞧不上他
没有钱嫖妓
只好回美国
: 这傻叉为什么要回美国？
: ,
【在 O**********g 的大作中提到】
: 这傻叉为什么要回美国？
:
: ,
| F**********8
发帖数: 1 | 17
泥米爹的科学技术进步就是靠千千万万这样的人偷回家的
【在 x*******o 的大作中提到】
: 中国的科学技术进步就是靠千千万万这样的人偷回家的
| s********e
发帖数: 11693 | 18 上海大了去了，现在什么郊县的都称上海人
【在 h****e 的大作中提到】
: 扯蛋
: 上海人
: 学习不好
:
:
: 此人一看面相就是小地方出来的，这种人有时为了名利什么事都做得出来
:
| e*******e
发帖数: 9616 | 19 是不是一线读书长大的看口音看待人接物看谈吐才能看出来 | w*p
发帖数: 16484 | 20 尼玛故意写的这么模糊，明明是从中国偷运东西来美国，一个劲强调在中国开公司10年
了。这人多半是个蓝皮，在中国混不下去了，想回美国，把在中国做的东西都带回来了。
,
【在 m***a 的大作中提到】
: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21150598-wu-and-chen
: A Chinese scientist living in San Diego and working to develop an mRNA
: cancer vaccine gave her scientist husband confidential data from her
: employer so he could “further” his own vaccine research at his lab in
: China, a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in Southern California federal
: court alleges.
: Last May, Chenyan Wu arrived at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on a
: flight from Shanghai with as many as 1,000 undeclared, improperly packaged,
: and unlabeled centrifuge tubes containing research samples, the filing
: states. Wu’s luggage also held “multiple containers of lab chemicals,”
| W**********t
发帖数: 1764 | 21 In December 2019, the FBI “found
a Powerpoint presentation on the cell phone of a Chinese Defendant, who had
previously pled guilty to export control violations,” states the complaint
against Wu and Chen. “The presentation was in Mandarin. Once translated,
the cover page of the packet read: ‘TheraMab’s mRNA Cancer Vaccine Project
,’ presented by Chenyan Wu. The presentation outlined TheraMab’s company
structure and investment plan and summarized its mRNA research process.”
-------这是才问题。PPT被逮了。老中回国做项目的多了去了，PPT骗钱的。做这种和
工作太相关的前沿项目FBI见一个逮一个
,
【在 m***a 的大作中提到】
: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21150598-wu-and-chen
: A Chinese scientist living in San Diego and working to develop an mRNA
: cancer vaccine gave her scientist husband confidential data from her
: employer so he could “further” his own vaccine research at his lab in
: China, a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in Southern California federal
: court alleges.
: Last May, Chenyan Wu arrived at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on a
: flight from Shanghai with as many as 1,000 undeclared, improperly packaged,
: and unlabeled centrifuge tubes containing research samples, the filing
: states. Wu’s luggage also held “multiple containers of lab chemicals,”
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