Across China: Zhejiang

Professor fired for fraud

Zhejiang University announced on Sunday the immediate firing of an associate professor involved in a pharmacology thesis fraud.

Yang Wei, president of the university, said that He Haibo, a former associate professor of the university's College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, was found to have used former doctoral supervisor's research results to write eight of his theses, and was involved in other improper practices such as sending his theses to different journals for publication and fabricating experts who helped improve his theses.