As the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center moved to terminate three research professors, general counsel and chief compliance officers at dozens of research universities around the country were struggling with how to handle federally mandated investigations of their scientists.

The National Institutes of Health, the nation’s largest funder of biomedical research, recently demanded that MD Anderson and 54 other institutions investigate scientists linked to possible foreign espionage. The U.S. government has warned that foreign governments, especially China, are recruiting students and visiting scholars to copy intellectual property data from confidential grant applications, enabling scientists to set up “shadow laboratories” in the foreign countries.

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