Scientist objects to 'targeting' by agencies using FBI

A prominent Chinese neuroscientist has written a letter to the US National Institutes of Health to express indignation over the institute's public warnings about foreign influence over NIH-funded biomedical research.

Rao Yi, dean of the division of sciences at Peking University, wrote a letter to NIH Director Francis Collins to accuse the body of "clearly targeting China" and casting aspersions on Chinese researchers in the United States.

Involving the FBI could interfere with scientific exchanges, and scientists could be tainted by false accusations, Rao said in the letter, which was published on Wednesday on a WeChat account founded by Rao and two other scholars.