Harvard scientist convicted of lying about China ties rebuilds brain-tech lab in China

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Dr. Charles Lieber, a former Harvard scientist convicted in 2021 of concealing his ties to a Chinese-run recruitment program, has since rebuilt his brain-computer interface lab in Shenzhen, China, according to Reuters.Convicted of six counts related to lying about a contract he held with Wuhan University of Technology, Lieber served two days in prison and six months on house arrest for his crimes.Just over three years after that conviction, Reuters reported, Lieber fled for China, where he became the head of the nation's burgeoning program to connect human brains to computers.Lieber, considered one of the world's authorities on nanotechnology, is now head of China's Institute for Brain Research, Advanced Interfaces and Neurotechnologies, or i-BRAIN.CHINA’S ULTRASOUND BRAIN TECH RACE HEATS UP Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard University's chemistry and chemical biology department, is released from John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on Jan. 30, 2020. Federal authorities said Lieber, a nanoscientist and entrepreneur, received hundreds of thousands of dollars from his Chinese connections. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe)"I arrived on April 28, 2025, with a dream and not much more, maybe a couple bags of clothes," Lieber said during a Shenzhen government