Fang Lei (方磊) had received federal grants for “sensitive” projects before leaving Texas A&M University to work at 
government-funded Y-Lab, and had a “stunning conflict of interest” even before his departure.
How did Texas A&M miss the early warning signs, despite federal mandates for universities to actively oversee and mitigate “foreign influence ‘red flags?’”
“This isn’t just about sloppy paperwork; it’s about a systemic, institutional failure to apply required research security standards.”
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government-funded Y-Lab, and had a “stunning conflict of interest” even before his departure.
How did Texas A&M miss the early warning signs, despite federal mandates for universities to actively oversee and mitigate “foreign influence ‘red flags?’”
“This isn’t just about sloppy paperwork; it’s about a systemic, institutional failure to apply required research security standards.”
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Byron Wan
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Fang Lei (方磊), a long-time professor with Texas A&M University’s Department of Chemistry, has left the US earlier this year and returned to China to join Yongjiang Laboratory (甬江实验室) aka Y-Lab — a state-backed research center that has drawn a cumulative investment of
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