UCSD doctor resigns amid questions about undisclosed Chinese businesses
Posted July 6, 2019
UCSD doctor resigns amid questions about undisclosed Chinese businesses
Source: iNewsSource
By: Brian Stauffer
Published: July 6, 2019
* A renowned UCSD eye doctor who is part of a Chinese recruitment program under FBI scrutiny has resigned amid inewsource’s questions about his foreign government affiliations and businesses.
* Kang Zhang, the former chief of eye genetics at the UCSD Shiley Eye Institute, is a member of the Thousand Talents Program, which the FBI says incentivizes scientists to illegally take intellectual property developed at U.S. universities to China. The purpose, authorities say, is to advance the country’s ‘scientific, economic, and military development goals.’