A post-doctoral researcher at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is accused of stealing research funded by the U.S. government and attempting to take it back to his native China.

Charging documents state Dr. Yunhai Li joined MD Anderson through a U.S. Department of State research exchange scholar visa in 2022. His employment made him an employee of the State of Texas.

Charging documents contain what investigators say is a sworn legal statement written by Li. In the statement, Li wrote that he was working at MD Anderson on a vaccine to prevent breast cancer from metastasizing.

When the project was approximately 70% finished, Li said he had taken up to 90 GB of research. When confronted by hospital officials, Li said he worked to convince them that he had permanently delete

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