3 ways CROs can proactively guard against the threat of foreign interference in research

While geopolitical tensions often play out far from the ivory tower of higher education, foreign policy changes (and the resulting tensions) under the Trump presidency have a very real impact for universities—especially the office of research. The continued trade war with China has played out on campuses since the summer of 2018, when the National Institutes of Health sent letters to over 10,000 research organizations warning of threats from China. In response, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Emory University fired researchers who failed to disclose foreign ties. Events have only escalated since then. In August of 2019, a professor at the University of Kansas was indicted on federal fraud charges.