Medical College Of Wisconsin: Hua Jun Zhao

Medical College Of Wisconsin Dept: MILWAUKEE - Suspicion quickly fell on a research assistant who had been working in a scientist's lab when three vials of a possible cancer-fighting compound disappeared recently from the professor's desk at the Medical College of Wisconsin, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Zhao has been charged in a federal complaint with economic espionage, accused by prosecutors of stealing academic research to pass off as his own in China. Prosecutors said he hoped to study the compound and other materials at Zhejiang University, one of several Chinese schools that have been troubled by plagiarism, fraud and academic misconduct and In this undated booking photo released by Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office, Hua Jun Zhao, 42, is shown. Zhao, a researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is charged with espionage after prosecutors say he stole details of a cancer-fighting compound that he wanted to share with China. AP Photo/Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office Security video showed Hua Jun Zhao, who studied in China and whose wife lives there, was the only person who entered the professor's office that day. Investigators later found research results from another professor on Zhao's computer. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.