“Baylor College of Medicine expanded its disclosure of outside interest policy in 2019 to include more personnel (i.e. Public Health Service (PHS), the parent body of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), require a federally funded scientist to consider the financial interests of a spouse. But Lori Williams, BCM’s vice president for communications, provided a statement to ScienceInsider noting that disclosure rules from the university and from the U.S. ![]() “The Baylor faculty are concerned about whether this is fair, and those of Chinese descent are worried about their job security.”īCM officials declined to comment on the reasons for the dismissals. “This leaves the impression that you could be fired if you have a spouse working in another country,” says one BCM faculty member who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Although colleagues say the two women receive no support from Chinese entities, ScienceInsider has learned that in their termination letters BCM cited their “inaccurate” and “non-timely” disclosure of foreign ties as reasons for dismissal. ScienceInsider, which has agreed not to use the two scientists’ names, has confirmed they are each married to a scientist who gave up a tenured position at BCM in the past few years and is now working at a top-tier Chinese university. citizens and one with tenure, was first reported by The Intercept. The 30 August firings of the two women, both naturalized U.S. ![]() government’s controversial China Initiative and would further jeopardize the status of Chinese-born scientists working in the United States. They and other scientists believe the widespread adoption of such practices to avoid possible conflicts of interest would be a dangerous expansion of the U.S. Chinese American scientists at the Baylor College of Medicine are concerned that BCM recently fired two faculty members because their spouses work as researchers in China.
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